Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Hi Dale, Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition of at least the same size as the damaged one to copy the blocks over to. Unfortunately, I haven't got another *drive* that's as big as that partition... Looks like an expensive deal for a single bad block! I'll be getting a replacement big drive to replace the damaged one, and a large external drive to use for backups. Ironic really, as the server was supposed to be my backup solution - it has my subversion repository on it, and an rsync module for backup. Unfortunatly, I'd started to use it as a webserver etc... Oh well, first disk corruption in 10 years - got to learn the hard way sometime... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi Dale, Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition of at least the same size as the damaged one to copy the blocks over to. Unfortunately, I haven't got another *drive* that's as big as that partition... Looks like an expensive deal for a single bad block! I'll be getting a replacement big drive to replace the damaged one, and a large external drive to use for backups. Ironic really, as the server was supposed to be my backup solution - it has my subversion repository on it, and an rsync module for backup. Unfortunatly, I'd started to use it as a webserver etc... Oh well, first disk corruption in 10 years - got to learn the hard way sometime... -- Ant... I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up was only 12 months old... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Anthony Roy wrote: I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up was only 12 months old... -- Ant... Yea, I recently threw away some old 14 inch hard drives. I hooked them up and they still worked. I could hear them spin up and heads moving and all. I don't have a computer that connects to it, I just got it some power. I do have some really old drives that are less than 1GB and some that are around 100MBs or so. They still work fine. Not sure what to do with them though. o_O I guess they really made them back then. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set it running when I went to bed. This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint that the filesystem could not be rebuilt bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover the filesystem? Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set it running when I went to bed. This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint that the filesystem could not be rebuilt bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover the filesystem? Cheers, -- Ant... Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 This is how I did my search: http://www.google.com/linux?num=100hl=enlr=lang_ensafe=offq=%22Cannot+read+the+block%22+%22%28Input%2FOutput+error%29%22btnG=Search I have some use, sometimes anyway. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
