-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Jardine wrote: > Others will probably offer better advice but ... > Boot from a CD/Flash and run fsck on the corrupt drive. If the > corruption is not catastrophic then you may well be able to recover from > there.
- From the rescue OS, I would also perform some SMART tests using the smartmon tools. Both Ubuntu and systemrescuecd have this, IIRC so does Knoppix. > If recovery is not easy, then I'd be inclined to put a new disk in (hey > - the old one is already 4yrs old), reinstall the O/S and restore from > backups. Not a bad idea at all. > If you really want to get the old drive working again, at least image > the contents to another disk (use 'dd' or similar) in case you end up > making it worse during recovery (it's happened to me). ddrescue is even better than dd, especially in cases like these where hardware may be failing. > > To insure against similar problems in the future: > Install a UPS (APC 1k is under $200) > Use a journalling fs (ext3) > The short short answer to which file system to use, is that ext3 is safer than reiser. > Hope that helps at least a bit. > Ditto. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl2UzYACgkQwRXgH3rKGfP4qACff4Y/DJ8oLbWpfkzsTaacN0eu LX8An3xlDDTRTixAwBzKGIlQRAqijl7c =HP5K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
