[gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got an external USB hard drive adapter that apparently have been going bad, or maybe the drive is going bad, I don't know... It has died a few times in the last week. During that time I've been burning DVDs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-10 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:15:14 -0600 Paul Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hartman writes: I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending

[gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). Hi, I've got an external USB hard drive adapter that apparently have been going bad, or maybe the drive is going bad, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:49:03 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: When I run less -f /dev/sdf1 i can see amongst the bits all of the names of my directories and files etc... so I am pretty sure the data is there and readable, but I can't figure out how to get XFS to go ahead and mount it so I can copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Dec 2008, at 17:49, Paul Hartman wrote: ... xfs_repair exists, but the man page says it can only be used against clealy unmounted drives... which seems kind of funny. I ran it anyway, in read-only mode, and it was unable to find the primary superblock and started scanning the disk for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting this, I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hartman writes: I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. If anyone