Re: hard drive repair problem
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:31:49AM -0400, Marty Landman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I must've had a power outage and though my system rebooted itself
> there now seems to be a problem with a 250GB hd which I can't seem to
> fix. Am pretty new to this - the fsck and dfisk outputs are below.
> There is lots of data on this drive, can I get it back?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marty
>
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> fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read while trying to open /dev/hdb1
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Sounds more like a hardware fault than a filesystem corruption to me.
Have you checked to see if anything is being logged by the driver
(eg by checking the output of 'dmesg')?
If there is nothing there, I would use 'dd' to try reading the partition
and/or raw drive from various offsets to see where the read error is
occuring. It seems like the first block has been able to be read (to
get the partitioning information), but the read is failing pretty soon
in the partition.
If it really is a filesystem corruption, then you should be able to dd
the entire content of the partition to /dev/null without any errors
being reported.
Regards,
DigbyT
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