From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m3MGpm5L028477 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:51 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 829AFA933BA for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id O7lKmCD6kH62M22q for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <480E17C7.7070606@sandeen.net> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:52:23 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: disk I/O error References: <1d3e8bf0804220842r26411f51vc714da371255aa90@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1d3e8bf0804220842r26411f51vc714da371255aa90@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Dovydas Sankauskas Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.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