Re: [SLE] Disk with bad blocks

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Sunny wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:19:44 +0100, Tage Danielsen wrote:

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Hello to all

I have a disk with reiserfs, and now I have got som badblocks, I wunder about i would bee possiple to fix the disk so mutch that I can get some of the data out?

When I mount the disk on /baddisk, and I make an ls I get som files with permission denyed, and then som files come out. There is one single file I have to get out, and I want to try before the laboratory. *SS*

So if any have some good ideas I like to know.

/Tage

Try to use dd to copy the partition to a file on your new (I guess you have one) drive.

Then use mount -o loop

to mount this file as loop device, and try to repair the file system and get the file you need.

If his disk really has bad blocks, dd will not work. He will have to use something like ddrescue that doesn't stop when it encounters bad blocks but works around them. I believe this is a place where you can get a fairly recent version of this program: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ Best regards, Alex.