Anthony Roy wrote: >Hi All, > >Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. >I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync >module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my >main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to >ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set >it running when I went to bed. > >This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was >inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the >computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! > >I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint >that the filesystem could not be rebuilt > >bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) > >It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting >the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing >this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover >the filesystem? > >Cheers, > >-- >Ant... > > >
Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208&sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 This is how I did my search: http://www.google.com/linux?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&q=%22Cannot+read+the+block%22+%22%28Input%2FOutput+error%29%22&btnG=Search I have some use, sometimes anyway. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list