Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 14:55 -0400, Jim wrote: > Then I did a e2fsck /dev/sda2 it took e2fsck about 45 mins to fix the > sda2 partition , One of Two users /home directories was totally gone , > the one tjhat was being used at CRASH time. But the one that was not > being used and had the important

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 03:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote: After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics: the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared. On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but one tha

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote: After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics: the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared. On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but one that had the entire contents of /boot. Copied eve

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 04:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 07/06/2012 02:13 PM, Jim wrote: THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPEÂ E2FSCK. Â You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person. I'am going to put it on my backup hard drive and take it over to my friends house and pu

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 01:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Did anything show up in the /lost+found directory? Good advice. I had a box boot for the specified number of times to require an fsck. I ended up with a box that wouldn't boot. After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 02:13 PM, Jim wrote: >> >> >> THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPEÂ E2FSCK. >> >> Â >> You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person. >> >> > I'am going to put it on my backup hard drive and take it over to my > friends house and put it onto his brand new

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

Good for you.  Glad you achieved some lessons learned and success in getting some data back! Now you can have a great weekend! > > From: Jim >To: Community support for Fedora users >Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 3:13 PM >Subject: Re: SOLVED: sd

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 03:01 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim > wrote: Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he just exited from pla

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim wrote: > Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. > > This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he > just exited from playing his Games to logging onto the internet with > Firefox. and something popped up

SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he just exited from playing his Games to logging onto the internet with Firefox. and something popped up about robo.. and he could not restart comput

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Jim wrote: > Thanks Rick I have done all that you have said but now I'm running > into read-only file systems, what command would I use to change the > ro to rw on external hard drive sdb1 ? > Since the original dd command: d

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Jim wrote: > Thanks Rick I have done all that you have said but now I'm running > into read-only file systems, what command would I use to change the > ro to rw on external hard drive sdb1 ? > It was probably still mounted fro

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 12:35 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.07.2012 18:28, schrieb Jim: On 07/06/2012 12:11 PM, Jim wrote: On 07/06/2012 12:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: There

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

Am 06.07.2012 18:35, schrieb Jim: > On 07/06/2012 12:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> that is exactly what I did but nothing shows up on /dev/sdb1 external >>> drive after dd has completed . >> >> Jim, what the others are trying to say (and several of them not too >> gracefully) is that the comman

Re: sda2 is corrupted

Am 06.07.2012 18:28, schrieb Jim: > On 07/06/2012 12:11 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 07/06/2012 12:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: >>> >> /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 > On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > >> There are some import

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

line Original-Nachricht ---- Betreff: Re: sda2 is corrupted Datum: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:15:14 +0200 Von: Heinz Diehl Antwort an: Community support for Fedora users Organisation: private site An:users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: There are some important data files

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 12:11 PM, Jim wrote: On 07/06/2012 12:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 Before you start any rescue

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

at it does in a real dangerous way and blindly following any advise without trying to understand what are you doing hopefully lesson learned -> BOTH of you! this is why i said "google for ddrescue" and NOT provide any HIGH DANGEROUS command line Original-Nachricht ---- Betreff:

Re: sda2 is corrupted

Am 06.07.2012 18:11, schrieb Jim: > On 07/06/2012 12:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: >> > /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > There are some important data files I must save off of sda2

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/06/2012 12:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the pa

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:22:55 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sda2 > > On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > > > >> There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 > > Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition, > > e.g. "dd if=/dev/sd

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

ant a image you have to use "dd if=/deV7sda1 >>> of=/path/filename.image" >> well, i guess the reason why this happened was a combination >> of plain stupid advise below without explain what it does in >> a real dangerous way and blindly following any advise withou

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

g any advise without trying to understand what are you doing hopefully lesson learned -> BOTH of you! this is why i said "google for ddrescue" and NOT provide any HIGH DANGEROUS command line Original-Nachricht ---- Betreff: Re: sda2 is corrupted Datum: Thu, 5 Jul 201

Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

you have to use "dd if=/deV7sda1 of=/path/filename.image" well, i guess the reason why this happened was a combination of plain stupid advise below without explain what it does in a real dangerous way and blindly following any advise without trying to understand what are you doing hopeful

Re: sda2 is corrupted

Am 06.07.2012 16:11, schrieb Jim: > On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck >> you should not play around before >> knowing what problem the drive has >> >> if it is a physical problem google for "ddrescue" >> >>> There are some importa

Re: sda2 is corrupted

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 03:11 PM, Jim wrote: > I run dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb1 to copy, supposely a 26gb > image to sdb1 but i do not see a image on sdb1 . > > Confused ??? That writes a block-for-block image of the content of sda2 to the device sdb1. It

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.07.2012 19:15, schrieb Jim: Fedora 17 the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN and it won't let me change the label back to /home what does "mount /dev/sda /home" say in "dmesg"` I have tried to use fedora and

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:43 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > > Follow allmanpc on Twitter View Mark Allman, PMP, CSM's profile on > LinkedIn > > > > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:30 -0400, Jim wrote: > > On 07/05/2012 02:13 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrot

Re: sda2 is corrupted

Follow allmanpc on Twitter View Mark Allman, PMP, CSM's profile on LinkedIn On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:30 -0400, Jim wrote: > On 07/05/2012 02:13 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > >>> On 05.07.2

Re: sda2 is corrupted

>Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:30 PM >Subject: Re: sda2 is corrupted > >On 07/05/2012 02:13 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrote: >>> On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >>>> On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim w

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/05/2012 02:13 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrote: On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote: Fedora 17 the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN and it won't let me change the label

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.07.2012 19:15, schrieb Jim: Fedora 17 the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN and it won't let me change the label back to /home what does "mount /dev/sda /home" say in "dmesg"` I have tried to use fedora and

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrote: > On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote: > >> Fedora 17 > >> > >> the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN > >> and it won't let me change the label back to /home > >> > >> I

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition, e.g. "dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk" or something like that. Otherwise, your efforts to rescue the data can actually ruin

Re: sda2 is corrupted

future problems. > > From: Jim >To: Community support for Fedora users >Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:47 PM >Subject: Re: sda2 is corrupted > >On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote: >>> Fedora 17 >&

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote: Fedora 17 the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN and it won't let me change the label back to /home I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck. There are some important

Re: sda2 is corrupted

Am 05.07.2012 19:15, schrieb Jim: > Fedora 17 > > the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN > and it won't let me change the label back to /home what does "mount /dev/sda /home" say in "dmesg"` > I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck you should not

Re: sda2 is corrupted

On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > > the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN > and it won't let me change the label back to /home > > I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck. > > There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 > >

sda2 is corrupted

Fedora 17 the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN and it won't let me change the label back to /home I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck. There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje