Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263922AbTKXUef (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:34:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263923AbTKXUef (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:34:35 -0500 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:5843 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263922AbTKXUee (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:34:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:33:21 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Larry McVoy , Ricky Beam , Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: data from kernel.bkbits.net Message-ID: <20031124203321.GA9036@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , "Richard B. Johnson" , Larry McVoy , Ricky Beam , Linux Kernel Mail List References: <20031124155034.GA13896@work.bitmover.com> <20031124192432.GA20839@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 17 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Attempt to copy the raw drive to /dev/null. If that works, the > drive is likely okay, but the fs got fsucked up by software. You > might be able to mount the drive on a 2.4.22 machine if you have a > spare. Then you might be able to selectively copy important stuff > to another drive, after which you can make a new file-system as > a "repair". The error messages Larry reported were obviously reported by the hardware, and were **not** filesystem errors. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/