I agree, something like h5fck would be an interesting tool. 
Maybe one can even do more. What I was thinking about was something like
an HDF5 carving tool (like scalpel for file systems) which tries to
rescue as much data as possible from a corrupted file. 
I do not know if this is possible. I just had a look at the binary data
layout of HDF5 files and was wondering if something like this already
exists ;) 

regards
  Eugen

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 17:05 +0000, Miller, Mark C. wrote:
> Not sure if it will 'repair' a file but 'h5debug' might help diagnose what
> is wrong with the file?
> For that matter, 'h5dump' and 'h5ls' also migth provide some information
> 
> I think maybe The HDF Group could use an h5fck (like fsck for a
> file-system).
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 10/7/13 3:37 AM, "Wintersberger, Eugen" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi folks
> >  though I never experienced problems with corrupted HDF5 files I just
> >wonder if there is a tool available to repair damaged HDF5 files?
> >
> >regards
> >  Eugen
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