From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: disk or reiserfs problem? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:36:00 +0400 Message-ID: <3EDB9910.7040005@namesys.com> References: <20030529054511.GA30925@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20030529054511.GA30925@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Oleg Drokin Cc: Jeff Breidenbach , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Oleg Drokin wrote: >Hello! > >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:07:27PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > >>This is after a hard (power switch) reboot (due to I/O errors). The >>disk in question has about 125 GB of data on a single 200GB reiserfs >>partition. Do people think the disk is toast, or is this possibly some >>correctable filesystem problem? The machine is remote, so I can't >>hdb1: bad access: block=35, count=5 >>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 35 >> >> > >Looks like disk have gone bad. If you are lucky enough, some of the data >still can be recovered. Try to copy entire disk into a file/to another >disk to see how much bad sectors are there. > >Bye, > Oleg > > > > You should provide more details in such advice, such as telling him about dd_rescue and why it is better than dd, etc. You should also explain that if it is only a few blocks that are bad, writing to the bad blocks can make them go away most of the time (the drive will remap them). -- Hans