On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:14:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/07/08 08:00, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>>Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't > >>>reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use > >>># e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx > >>That was my first recovering oeration. > >>It is about 10 hours 'fsck.ext3' is running now, yet less than half > >>partition has been scanned. My /usr partition is 2 GB. > >>Is it possible to pause the process, so as to be able to restart fsck > >>later? > > > >I am not aware of that option. > > > >Has anything shown up in /var/log/syslog to indicate any drive problems? > > > >When you say 'fsck.ext3', did you use '-c -c' or not? If not, it will > >only sort out the file system it won't look for bad blocks. > > > >Probably another 12 hrs to go. > > For a 2GB partition... > > Which is why Smart People are working on a Linux fs that doesn't > need to be fsck'ed. Sadly, I think they are doomed to failure (or > fated to only partial success), because IMO speed is the polar > opposite of data security.
Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged drive I wanted to try to reuse, I wouldn't put real data on it until I had exercised it for 24 hrs straight anyway. It may as well look for badblocks. Hopefully, it won't find any and the drive can remap itself internally. Silly me, I just thought, does this drive have S.M.A.R.T.? If so, when you do reinstall, put the smartmontools on it and run a long test. I remember that at the beginning of the thread, the OP presented the drive as one that had "hard crashed". Later, we learn that it is a laptop that was dropped 1m to the floor. I know that there are external laptop-drive enclosures that are rated for 1m drop to concrete with no damage (addonics Jupiter, Quantum Go-Vault). Perhaps the laptop is well built and no damage was done at all. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
