Thanks for your comments. My system is still going under my watchful eye. I tried to copy the data using tar to a spare diskl tar -cplf - -C /myhardrive . | tar -xpvf - but this did not go far. I wonder if I could boot into rescue and do a dd ? I have not used this before. Brian Marr
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 15:12, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:22:50AM +0930, Brian Marr wrote: > > What reiserfsck paramaters should I try ? Do I have to do --rebuild-tree > > ? > > You hard drive is failing, so yuo should backup all the data to other > drive first, then you might want to revive your disk, or get it replaced > (which is even beter). > You better not to run reiserfsck or any other programs (besides tar or > some other backup tool) on this disk, because you might loose even more > data this way. > > Bye, > Oleg
