From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: Hard errors, trying to recover Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:02:05 +0400 Message-ID: <200406301802.05840.vitaly@namesys.com> References: <20040629193943.GA15481@p15104972.pureserver.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040629193943.GA15481@p15104972.pureserver.info> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Kristian Koehntopp , reiserfs-list@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? we deal with hardware problems only under www.namesys.com/support.html terms. -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman