On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:48 -0700, Will wrote: > I imagine narrowing down the possibilities is pretty > much all I can do. I figure if I can get the > superblock correct at least, then I will be able to > run fsck, and I image if I run fsck with the option > -n, I won't damage anything, but perhaps tell if the > order is incorrect.
Right, fsck -n is safe to run. It won't write anything. > After that I can try mounting the > file system read only, and from there I can check some > of the files to see if they look correct (I have a > number of files larger than 128k, so I should be able > to detect an incorrect disk ordering fairly easy). I suspect that once fsck -n runs clean, everything should be fine. It won't hurt to be cautious though. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
