On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:28:01AM -0400, boricua wrote: > running reiserfsck -B bbfile /dev/hda4 is giving me following error > > "bread: cannot read the block 16 [i/o error] > > anyway aroound this? > IO error means block-layer level failure, that is, physical failure.
In the event of physical HD failure, the procedure goes like this: - get a bigger partition somewhere reachable (new hard disk, nfs, whatever) - boot knoppix, use dd_rescue to dump as much as possible of faulty disk into a file on the bigger partition. Pad not recoverable zones with zeroes so that the pointers arent screwed up. - run fsck on the image you created - mount and recover. Good luck. -- - Do you study theories? - Oh yes! Theories are fun. - How do you use them? - When I must act, theories are too slow. To act, I must know.
