coderus | # 11 | 2014-09-14, 07:59 | Report

@nieldk mmcblk0p28 on N9? you smoking weeds? just do dd dump yourself before writing more answers please

nieldk | # 12 | 2014-09-14, 08:16 | Report

I have dd dump from the very start, and also, it wouldnt be a dd dump if the size was not equal to the actual partition - it is a RAW partition copy dude, read up on it

coderus | # 13 | 2014-09-14, 08:41 | Report

please do sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p28 of=/media/sdcard/yoursdcard/image.bin now and tell it's size

Wonko | # 14 | 2014-09-14, 08:55 | Report

Just a wild guess and to double check:
The filesystem on your SD card does not have a 4GB file size limit, like FAT32?
That would explain why you only get a file of ~4GB size.

nieldk | # 15 | 2014-09-14, 09:04 | Report

That could be a reason for @coderus filesize, yes.

@coderus, I do a dd after every update, and you are wrong!

I DARE you to do a dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mmcblk0p28
then dd if=yourbackup.bin if=/dev/mmcblk0p28
If your filesize is 4Gb , youre probably screwed

coderus | # 16 | 2014-09-14, 09:05 | Report

hm, that explain everything. Thanks D:

nieldk | # 17 | 2014-09-14, 09:07 | Report

You should create a new backup

coderus | # 18 | 2014-09-14, 09:09 | Report

I have not enough storage to do that.

So, is there any way to restore this broken partition like recreating fs without using raw dump?

nieldk | # 19 | 2014-09-14, 09:17 | Report

yes, create a tar.gz of the content.
Then you can untar that for restoring.

that would probably fit within 4Gb size

or, you could create the dd through ssh tunnelling to your PC

juiceme | # 20 | 2014-09-14, 11:16 | Report

Or, you could connect USB networking and pipe it thru netcat, a lot faster than thru ssh via WLAN