Steven Kerr wrote:
> Thanks for those who responded.
>
> The fix was a bit of patience and Reading TFM
>
> e2fsck -b 16385 -c /dev/hdd1
>
> The -c did a bad block check, in frustration I left the system
> overnight as it appeared just to hang... no disk activity for about 10
> minutes.
>
> This morning it had finished (well dropped back to shell anyway), and
> now the fs is mountable.
Had a similar disk muckup the other day (found oue that cat had been
sitting on the keyboard of a server tucked away in the corner ... somehow
all the errant keystrokes crapped out the machine!) Both corrupted disks
on the server recovered quite well and the keyboard has been removed :)
This is YALSP (Yet Another Linux Selling Point): When these kinds of disk
failures occur on Windows, unless you have a Ph.D. in Norton Utilities and
have forked out $$$, chances are exactly 0% that you will recover your disk,
since MS fails to provide any tools with its OS to save you from disaster.
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