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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Dovydas Sankauskas <laisve@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: disk I/O error
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:52:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480E17C7.7070606@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d3e8bf0804220842r26411f51vc714da371255aa90@mail.gmail.com>

Dovydas Sankauskas wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have an external USB HDD, which I wanted to use as a temporary
> storage for my personal data while I clean up my local hdd. And while
> moving files from local hdd to external hdd, it stopped responding. I
> tried xfs_repair, but no luck.
> 
> Any insight on what has happened 

Look no further than your $SUBJECT :)

> and what are my chances to restore
> data?

Which disk died, original or backup?

In any case to recover as best you can from the dying disk, try
dd_rescue to image every readable sector, then run xfs_repair on that
image and mount it loopback to get to what's left.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22 15:42 disk I/O error Dovydas Sankauskas
2008-04-22 16:52 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-05-01 15:25   ` Dovydas Sankauskas
2008-04-28  9:42 ` Emmanuel Florac

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