From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux ext3 partition hosed, is this hardware of software error?
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:49:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081221144913.76ca53d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081221143640.GF1509@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
> res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Bad sectors
> Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 12
> Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 13
Right near the start of the disk.
Make a copy of the partition with a recovery tool and write it somewhere
(file on another disk whatever) and keep it safe. Make a copy of that and
fsck the copy. You may need to use the alternate superblock option on
fsck for this.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-21 14:36 linux ext3 partition hosed, is this hardware of software error? Norbert Preining
2008-12-21 14:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-12-21 15:03 ` Norbert Preining
2008-12-21 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-25 9:55 ` Norbert Preining
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