[PLUG] superblock problem

[Vincent Yau]

Ok...This is good to know.
I have decided that I no longer want the data on the drive.  I have moved 
stuff out of it a few weeks ago for a different reason.  So the stuff on 
there, I can really do without.

Should I reformat the drive?  I am thinking I can do that but I am not sure 
if the drive is reliable
since I have no clue why I have trouble with it today all of a sudden.  The 
drive is less than 3 years old.

--Vincent


>From: Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com>
>Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
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>To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
><plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] superblock problem
>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:59:40 -0800
>
>Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>>>Thanks, but I got back the same errors:
>>>
>>>
>>>e2fsck -pv /dev/hdb
>>>hd2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while 
>>>reading block 524
>>>hd2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading 
>>>journal superblock
>>>e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read 
>>>while checking ext3 journal for hd2
>>
>>e2fsck is a wrapper for fsck.  If fsck throws these errors, e2fsck
>>will too.
>>
>>Here's something that may be worth a try:
>>
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg00584.html
>>
>>It involves dd-ing your hard drive to a big ol' file, and then
>>mounting the file -o loop.
>
>If you go this route, you should probably use dd_rescue.
>
>http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
>
>
>galen
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