Shawn wrote:
More on this. No matter what I try to do, I can't mount the partition. So I
tried the "fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree" option. this failed with the
following:
The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have
bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you
get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from
your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become
much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk
drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your
time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that
advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the
bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means
it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for
of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock
option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly.
bread: Cannot read the block (1713): (Input/output error).
Aborted
So, it appears I have a bad block somewhere critical. Next I tried to use "dd"
to backup the partition before doing anything more drastic. This resulted in
the following:
sage workspace # dd if=/dev/hda4 of=home_backup
dd: reading `/dev/hda4': Input/output error
13776+0 records in
13776+0 records out
so is there anyway I can get to the data on this partition?? I guess I'm
looking at rebuilding my workstation this weekend.... again.... :(
Thanks for any tips.
Shawn
On Friday 15 July 2005 13:53, Shawn wrote:
I was working late last night when my workstation started behaving badly -
running apps freezing, new processes taking forerver to start, etc. So, I
decided to shut down the system, and reboot. I had to go to tty1 to make
this happen - KDE/X refused to behave by this point.
Once I restarted, KDE started behaving as though it had never been run
before. So I switched to console mode and began investigating. Turns out
that /home was not mounted. That explains KDE acting like a new install,
but this doesn't explain the underlying problem.
When I try to mount /home manually I get the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
or too many mounted file systems
Shawn, you might want to run a program called "Spinrite" on your
hard drive. It's a stand alone program that will do a repair of your
hard drives sectors if it is at all possible. You can read about it
at the writers home page at http://grc.com. His name is Steve
Gibson and he writes in assembler, so the program will fit on a
diskette. It might take the better part of a day or two, depending
on how large your drive is, mind you.
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