On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:02:19 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
Got a drive that's starting to show its age (sadly, at only about 2 years old!). It's a Maxtor OneTouch drive, which actually contains 2 500 GB drives and presents via USB as a single storage device.
Two follow-up questions: 1. Is there any way with reiserfs to find out which files are affected by the results of a badblocks test? ie, given a list of bad blocks, can I find out the filenames of any files that are going to be unreadable as a result? That'd give me an idea of what I need to find backup copies of. Most of the data is replaceable, just a pain to have to do that. 2. Suggestion was made that I could maybe re-zero the drive to revive things. Could I just zero those blocks in the same way, and if so, how? What I'm thinking is that if I can get a list of the files that are affected, nuke them, and then refresh only the affected blocks, that may well save me a bunch of time and money in backing the drive up (which means buying another drive = the cost factor). The errors reported in the log are data phase errors (at least for where I've tried to write), so it *seems* reasonable that I could probably do this without wiping the whole drive and starting over. Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org