I use a similar approach as well. However, I have multiple OS machines, so if any drive fails (or if I am working on a friends computer that has), I just pop it in one of my other OS machines, mount it and copy off what I can. -- Regards, Shawn Holland On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 08:28 -0700, N B Day wrote:

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

Guy,

My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.

First, calm down. Take a walk. Don't panic and do stuff you'll regret later.

Have you got a Linux live CD? There are dozens of these; many are optimized for data rescue and recovery. See the listing at http://livecdlist.com.

I like and have often used Knoppix for this, but any one of many and a USB key or external drive will do the job.

Good luck.

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Shawn Holland wrote:

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I use a similar approach as well. However, I have multiple OS machines, so if any drive fails (or if I am working on a friends computer that has), I just pop it in one of my other OS machines, mount it and copy off what I can.

-- Regards, Shawn Holland

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 08:28 -0700, N B Day wrote:

...

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

Guy,

My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.

First, calm down. Take a walk. Don't panic and do stuff you'll regret later.

Have you got a Linux live CD? There are dozens of these; many are optimized for data rescue and recovery. See the listing at http://livecdlist.com.

I like and have often used Knoppix for this, but any one of many and a USB key or external drive will do the job.

Good luck.

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Well I need to tell not to read the block 5672, I think I will be ok. Right now no matter what it stops on that block.

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Maybe this will help...this is the error... Check and repair filesystem (reiserfs) on /dev/sdc3 00:00:23 ( ERROR ) calibrate /dev/sdc3 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc3 start: 6618780 end: 59054939 size: 52436160 (25.00 GiB) check filesystem on /dev/sdc3 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:23 ( ERROR ) reiserfsck --yes --fix-fixable --quiet /dev/sdc3 reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdc3 and will fix what can be fixed without --rebuild-tree Will put log info to 'stdout' ########### reiserfsck --fix-fixable started at Sun Aug 24 07:33:57 2008 ########### Replaying journal: Trans replayed: mountid 402, transid 33176325, desc 5667, len 12, commit 5680, next trans offset 5663 The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly. bread: Cannot read the block (5672): (Input/output error). -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Shawn Holland wrote:

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 11:41 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Shawn Holland wrote:

...

I use a similar approach as well. However, I have multiple OS machines, so if any drive fails (or if I am working on a friends computer that has), I just pop it in one of my other OS machines, mount it and copy off what I can.

-- Regards, Shawn Holland

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 08:28 -0700, N B Day wrote:

...

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

Guy,

My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.

First, calm down. Take a walk. Don't panic and do stuff you'll regret later.

Have you got a Linux live CD? There are dozens of these; many are optimized for data rescue and recovery. See the listing at http://livecdlist.com.

I like and have often used Knoppix for this, but any one of many and a USB key or external drive will do the job.

Good luck.

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Well I need to tell not to read the block 5672, I think I will be ok. Right now no matter what it stops on that block.

-- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.

Maybe this will help...this is the error...

Check and repair filesystem (reiserfs) on /dev/sdc3 00:00:23 ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdc3 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sdc3 start: 6618780 end: 59054939 size: 52436160 (25.00 GiB) check filesystem on /dev/sdc3 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:23 ( ERROR )

reiserfsck --yes --fix-fixable --quiet /dev/sdc3

reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)

************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** *************************************************************

Will check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdc3 and will fix what can be fixed without --rebuild-tree Will put log info to 'stdout' ########### reiserfsck --fix-fixable started at Sun Aug 24 07:33:57 2008 ########### Replaying journal: Trans replayed: mountid 402, transid 33176325, desc 5667, len 12, commit 5680, next trans offset 5663

The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly.

bread: Cannot read the block (5672): (Input/output error).

-- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.

When ever I pop in any drive (regardless of its FS) I just mount it and it never complains. Except to spit out IO errors during the copy process. I don't bother to do a FS check. Like I said, I mount, copy, unmount. If your lucky enough to have another computer running linux you can do the same thing. If you only have the one computer then a live cd should let you boot and then mount the existing drive and then copy to an external source, just like I do. But doing an FS check is going to produce those errors when you just need to copy off the data. So just copy it off :)

-- Regards, Shawn Holland

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Shaw, again. No matter what I get that error. That is why I am asking for HELP. I have tried everything you, and I happy that you are so lucky, I am not. Ok. That is why I have posted to mailist. FOR HELP!. -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM, N B Day wrote:

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

...

Guy,

My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.

First, calm down. Take a walk. Don't panic and do stuff you'll regret later.

Have you got a Linux live CD? There are dozens of these; many are optimized for data rescue and recovery. See the listing at http://livecdlist.com.

I like and have often used Knoppix for this, but any one of many and a USB key or external drive will do the job.

Good luck.

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first thing I did was try knoppix, no luck. In fact that was the one that told I need to fix the superblock. I am doing search now. Can't walk have too much to do to get it back up. -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Rajko M. wrote:

On Sunday 24 August 2008 09:57:55 am Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guy,

My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.

Thanks

Payne

As N B Day said, calm down first. Urge is bad adviser as many actions can make situation worse.

-B expects file name with a list of bad blocks, not a bad block number itself

I would use first dd_rescue to pull as much as possible from the drive, than attempt to fix it using manufacturers tool for that, or if dd_rescue fails than straight with manufacturers tool. It will solve bad blocks problem and fsck will be able to repair file system.

The package is ddrescue.

I'm sorry that I can't help more, but without drive type and model is not possible to search the web.

From your another post it seems that bad block is in the middle of the journal.

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Rajko, Thanks, your help was what I was needing. I have install the dd_rescue, and I have found this page that explain how to recover my files and remove that bad sector too. http://blog.herbertm.ca/pages/badblocks-howto Again, thanks. I don't post to the list until I have done my google search, man pages, and take a couple of power naps to clear my mind. Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 24 August 2008 04:27:49 pm Chuck Payne wrote:

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Rajko,

Thanks, your help was what I was needing. I have install the dd_rescue, and I have found this page that explain how to recover my files and remove that bad sector too.

http://blog.herbertm.ca/pages/badblocks-howto

Good HOWTO. ...

Man, dd_rescue ROCKS!. I was able to get my data with it.  I use this dd_rescue -A -v -b 4096 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/backup.img. That took about 3hrs for 5gigs. Once it was done, I ran reiserfsck --check /mnt/backup.img, it came back clean. Now, I got mount -o loop /mnt/backup.img /backup. Thanks again for the help.

Reiserfs was mentioned in this paper: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf as oversensitive to errors making sometimes situation worse than it actually is. There is from same Google search: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org/msg02286.html It is a bit old. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org