Re: Hard errors, trying to recover

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

Hello,

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 23:39, Kristian Koehntopp wrote:
> I have a 160 GB disk that has at least one hard read-error.
>
> I tried reiserfsck'ing that disk, in order to salvage data on that disk by
> copying it to a safe location one last time. Unfortunately, reiserfsck
> --rebuild-tree runs into that read-error and stops, lecturing me on disk
> quality (I knew that!). Now I cannot even mount that disk, because
> reiserfsck zeroed root block 0 during the rebuild-tree.
>
> I am at the moment dd'ing that disk with conv=noerrors, hoping that I will
> get an image (which will be truncated by 4 GB, because my scratch disk is
> somewhat smaller than the source disk). I tried to reiserfsck
> --rebuild-tree the partial image, but I reiserfsck breaks down, because it
> is unable to read the last block of the images (it is a partial image).
>
> What can I do to salvage the data on my broken disk?

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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman