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| 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).

: Read-only, offline, and on a copy – the three rules of safe VMFS recovery. vmfs-tools

/mnt/vmfs/ ├── .fdc.sf/ ├── .sdd.sf/ └── <datastore_name>/ ├── .vSphere-HA/ ├── <vm_folder>/ │ ├── .vmdk, .vmx, .vmsd, etc. └── ... Use standard cp , rsync , or dd to recover data: | Command | Purpose | |---------|---------| | vmfs-fuse

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. └──

/dev/sdb1 Linux swap /dev/sdb2 VMFS (0xFB) sudo vmfsfsck /dev/sdb2 Step 3: Mount Using vmfs-fuse Create a mount point and mount read-only: