Re: Filesystem errors

[Brian Marr <cabernet@internode.on.net>]

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