On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:33:33 -0800 King Beowulf <[email protected]> dijo:
>Sounds like your partition table got borked from a bad eject/umount. >if thats it, you can repair it. There might be a few bad files, >though, since you tried to keep using the drive. Also, you might have >a bad enclosure. If it happens again, then a warranty swap might be >in order. A bad umount is certainly a possibility. >Easiest, if you have a backup of the data, is to reformat. Since it >is 3TB, I suggest setting up several partitions instead of just one >big one. Useful utilities (live distros also handy if your system >wont boot): I have no backup. But the only things on the drive are old movies. I could re-download them, so I never bothered to worry about backups. Still, it would be a pain in the neck to have to download them all over again. >http://partedmagic.com >http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > >Both include numerous harddrive and other diagnostic tools, such as >testdisk. Testdisk is an excellent utility to recover partitions. > >Bad superblock issues pop up often. Before you get too deep, you can >try something simple. You can try to load one of the back up >superblocks, there are several backup. Which one you use will depend >on your block size (8193 the superblock location for 1K blocks). Your >3TB drive is no doubt formated with 4K blocks (4096 bytes). > >find superblock locations: >|# dumpe2fs /dev/sda3 | grep superblock| > >find block size: >|# dumpe2fs /dev/hda2 | grep 'Block size'| That results in a command line that hangs with ">." >http://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/repair-a-broken-ext4-superblock-in-ubuntu/ >http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/surviving-a-linux-filesystem-failures.html Will check these out tomorrow after a night's sleep. Thanks for the suggestions. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
