Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Brooks
Do not use fsck on faulty hardware. I would remove the drive attach it to another linux box with free storage space on a file system larger than that of the whole damaged drive. Use ddrescue to rebuild as much of the failed drive as possible them mount the image produced from ddrescue and

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/19 Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com: a hd in my server failed. I noticed when I went to SSH in and get a copy of some files in /var/www/html I tried to tar the files and I was told No, read-only file system. I restarted and tried running FSCK manually (without -a or -p) and

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-19 Thread m . roth
Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months. Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working floppies from the eighties and early nineties. And I deal with

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-19 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months. Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working floppies from the eighties and early

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/19/2010 8:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months. Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working floppies from the

[CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-18 Thread Slack-Moehrle
a hd in my server failed. I noticed when I went to SSH in and get a copy of some files in /var/www/html I tried to tar the files and I was told No, read-only file system. I restarted and tried running FSCK manually (without -a or -p) and I get inode errors, short reads, etc. I tried booting

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-18 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months. Every hard drive will fail eventually. Some take days. Some take decades. Most fail somewhere in between those