FYI - ============================================= fsck.xfs(8) Name fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully =============================================
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:08 AM Chris Knadle <chris.kna...@coredump.us> wrote: > James E. LaBarre: > > I have a USB stick that was the boot volume for my PogoPlug V4 (that I > was > > using as my jumpbox). It was running ArchArm Linux. I lost power on > this > > unit **ONCE** without doing a regular halt command, and now it won't boot > > the Pogo4, and if I put the USB stick into my Mint17 system, it says it's > > write-protected, and no amount of cajoling will force it to mount. Is > there > > some switch that I haven't found that will force it to mount, even > > read-only, that will let me pull files off of it, so I can wipe and > reformat > > it? > > Maybe. However if this is an ext4 filesystem then you're probably starting > off on the wrong foot; first thing to do is look into doing an e2fsck to > check and repair the filesystem. > > There is one filesystem that /requires/ you mount it before trying to fix > it > -- that's xfs. hfsplus is an example of a filesystem that requires you to > force mount it if you want to mount it rw. > > > This is the *second* pogo4 I have run ArchArm on that this has happened > to. > > It managed to brick the other one, which I eventually had to throw out > > (after taking a sledgehammer to it of course). Would at least like to > try > > to bring it back up, although I'm not sure I can trust it anymore (it was > > originally supposed to be my NAS host, before the other jumpbox one > died). > > When it comes to USB sticks, look into using unjournaled ext4. You heard > that right -- unjournaled. It's a rare option and not simple to set up, > but > that's what I'd use on Flash if I could figure out how to get it to work. > > The IPFire firewall distribution is one example that has unjournaled ext4 > as > one of its filesystem options. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > chris.kna...@coredump.us > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Apr 6 - Open Street Map > May 4 - Front-End Web Cli Tools > Jul 13 - Mad Science Fair Vi @ Lourdes >
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