I found that I had a spare 1Gb partition, and using a rescue disk managed to copy accross what I could of the damaged disk. Unfortuantely, that's meant I've lost some network option files and some of the run-levels directories have vanished (/etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc6.d/ went, as did /etc/network/options and some other files plus some i've no idea about!) so I'm trying to recreate those. Does anyone know of a utility that can reinstall all the now missing files - I'm not in anyway sure of what isn't there that should be.
The hard disc is a 10Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache Seagate that is less than 6 months old. I'm fairly furious that it has developed an error this quickly. With thanks, Matthew On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:01:11 -0800, [email protected] said: > on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +0000, Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Please help someone, and quickly!! > > > > I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read > > fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and > > putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems. > > > > I have run through with fsck and it reports a : > > > > Error reading block 131077 (Attempt to read block from filesystem > > resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. > > > > The boot up gets fairly screwed as it is having major problems in > > reading from the root file system. Fsck it seems can not fix it, and > > none of my linux books talk of any other disk repair utilities. Does > > anyone know what I should do? > > If you don't have comprehensive system backups, this is the time time to > make them. > > I'd try running a (nondestructive) badblocks test on the partition -- > you'll likely have to boot another device, possible a floppy distro of > GNU/Linux. > > I tend to suspect bad hardware and toss it when I start getting disk > errors. You might try repairing the issue, but if it returns, your time > and data are more valuable than the disk. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > -- Using intelligent power: RISC OS, Be OS, Debian Linux Enjoying computing.
