Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 16:16:04 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > > terminal damage to the onboard chipset controller. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 15:47:03 Rich Freeman wrote: > You're comparing a 500kV breaker at a substation to a USB device? > > I'm very skeptical of the claim that any electrical effects associated > with unplugging a device is going to cause issues with any USB device. > They're basically designed

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 23:37:22 Mick wrote: > Many old-timers lurking around here are still using text only > (teletype) terminals. :p ASR-33, KSR-35. Takes me back, does that, to a two-day course on their maintenance. 1974. -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > terminal > damage to the onboard chipset controller. > > If you're lucky only partial corruption of the filesys

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 21:40:30 dan...@sonck.nl wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2017 9:28 PM, Mick wrote: > >> This is the first time I heard about discharge damage while unplugging. I >> highly doubt that but for curiosity sake I like some document >> proving

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 21:40:30 dan...@sonck.nl wrote: > On Jun 15, 2017 9:28 PM, Mick wrote: > This is the first time I heard about discharge damage while unplugging. I > highly doubt that but for curiosity sake I like some document > proving/explaining this. I'd like one too, but until one ap

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On June 15, 2017 7:24:09 PM GMT+02:00, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >On 06/15/2017 10:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 06/15/2017 06:21:44 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >[snip] >>> >> >> This looks like a hardware failure. You could try to use >sys-fs/ddrescue >> to recover all / most

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread daniel
On Jun 15, 2017 9:28 PM, Mick wrote:On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 11:24:09 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I was under impression that ext4 file system was much better (not prone > to these kind of damages) but I was wrong. > > -- > Thelma If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 11:24:09 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I was under impression that ext4 file system was much better (not prone > to these kind of damages) but I was wrong. > > -- > Thelma If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical discharge across the phys

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread thelma
On 06/15/2017 10:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 06/15/2017 06:21:44 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [snip] >> > > This looks like a hardware failure. You could try to use sys-fs/ddrescue > to recover all / most files. > If this doesn't work as expected, you can try to use app-admin/testd

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/15/2017 06:21:44 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Try increasing verbosity of the e2fsck >\u200b > And why would you trust some random ms windows ext4 driver in RW mode? >\u200b > -- > Joost Increasing verbosity doesn't help much :-/ e2fsck -v /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.43.3 (04-Sep-201

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread thelma
On 06/15/2017 10:11 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On June 15, 2017 5:26:36 PM GMT+02:00, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 >> >> I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver >> now I can not open it on Linux box.

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On June 15, 2017 5:26:36 PM GMT+02:00, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 > >I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver >now I can not open it on Linux box. > >e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1 >64gb: recovering journal > >

[gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread thelma
I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver now I can not open it on Linux box. e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1 64gb: recovering journal (just stays there and does nothing). when I unplug it I get: e2fsck: No such