Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!
I found that I had a spare 1Gb partition, and using a rescue disk managed to
copy accross what I could of the damaged disk. Unfortuantely, that's meant I've
lost some network option files and some of the run-levels directories have
vanished (/etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc6.d/ went, as did /etc/network/options and some
other files plus some i've no idea about!) so I'm trying to recreate those.
Does anyone know of a utility that can reinstall all the now missing files -
I'm not in anyway sure of what isn't there that should be.
The hard disc is a 10Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache Seagate that is less than 6 months
old. I'm fairly furious that it has developed an error this quickly.
With thanks,
Matthew
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:01:11 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +0000, Matthew Sackman (matthew@sackman.co.uk) wrote:
> > Please help someone, and quickly!!
> >
> > I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read
> > fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and
> > putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems.
> >
> > I have run through with fsck and it reports a :
> >
> > Error reading block 131077 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> > resulted in short read) while doing inode scan.
> >
> > The boot up gets fairly screwed as it is having major problems in
> > reading from the root file system. Fsck it seems can not fix it, and
> > none of my linux books talk of any other disk repair utilities. Does
> > anyone know what I should do?
>
> If you don't have comprehensive system backups, this is the time time to
> make them.
>
> I'd try running a (nondestructive) badblocks test on the partition --
> you'll likely have to boot another device, possible a floppy distro of
> GNU/Linux.
>
> I tend to suspect bad hardware and toss it when I start getting disk
> errors. You might try repairing the issue, but if it returns, your time
> and data are more valuable than the disk.
>
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