More on this. No matter what I try to do, I can't mount the partition. So I tried the "fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree" option. this failed with the following:
The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly. bread: Cannot read the block (1713): (Input/output error). Aborted So, it appears I have a bad block somewhere critical. Next I tried to use "dd" to backup the partition before doing anything more drastic. This resulted in the following: sage workspace # dd if=/dev/hda4 of=home_backup dd: reading `/dev/hda4': Input/output error 13776+0 records in 13776+0 records out so is there anyway I can get to the data on this partition?? I guess I'm looking at rebuilding my workstation this weekend.... again.... :( Thanks for any tips. Shawn On Friday 15 July 2005 13:53, Shawn wrote: > I was working late last night when my workstation started behaving badly - > running apps freezing, new processes taking forerver to start, etc. So, I > decided to shut down the system, and reboot. I had to go to tty1 to make > this happen - KDE/X refused to behave by this point. > > Once I restarted, KDE started behaving as though it had never been run > before. So I switched to console mode and began investigating. Turns out > that /home was not mounted. That explains KDE acting like a new install, > but this doesn't explain the underlying problem. > > When I try to mount /home manually I get the following error: > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, > or too many mounted file systems > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
