Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-04 Thread Steven Haigh
Quoting Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *snip* Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data? fsck.ext2 /dev/sda1 Obviously replacing sda1 with your partition and drive for your external device. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-04 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 07:09 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l total 692996 -rw-r- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime drwxrwxrwx 4 kikinovak kikinovak

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
Niki Kovacs wrote: Daniel de Kok a écrit : On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 07:09 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l total 692996 -rw-r- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07

RE: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 11:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk Niki Kovacs wrote: Daniel de Kok a écrit : On Sat, 2007

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Johnny Hughes a écrit : Normally, unplugging external drives without unmounting them is the culprit on an external USB device. Also, just powering off the drive without unmount it if it is an externally powered drive. On internally mounted drives, usually turning off the system without

[CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very satisfied with it. Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films, music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around here (small South French village, town hall and public