: Read-only, offline, and on a copy – the three rules of safe VMFS recovery.
| Command | Purpose | |---------|---------| | vmfs-fuse | Mount a VMFS partition via FUSE (user-space) for read-only access | | vmfsfsck | Check and validate VMFS filesystem metadata (read-only) | | vmfsrestore | Experimental tool to copy files from VMFS to another location | Step 1: Identify the VMFS Partition Use lsblk or fdisk to find the correct partition (type 0xFB for VMFS). vmfs-tools
1. Introduction VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a clustered block-based file system developed by VMware for storing virtual machine disks, snapshots, and configuration files. By default, Windows and standard Linux distributions cannot mount or read VMFS volumes. : Read-only, offline, and on a copy –
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Example output: