From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Obpoq-0002XD-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:03:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21416E09E9 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0C9E08EF for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so373741wyb.40 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:11:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=AB0DizW0yRf8SWy8sXWtja31+oMhSd81jrf2nD+72vA=; b=kC+e0SQ8VlGL2EHRbbbXAa+Ebw8kFiYogwM2v8wN0xr++ByLslhY0Ptq2rN+egDWTa Pq4kyhD7rNOYUf9Lsu2G2IW8K8yKYBnqoO2xdXnKZNwelvIsffR1BYr0XruOWvUo/FTt 7OYOG4QExliKukLF0Mg7uYZjUaAJ3yXnpqKnk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KwfOiSexgPol5aCJlHSXVs9W0mHDzTnZCK9gqLaj81qaGZRJ25gNJEWofwEIV4zaw2 DYOl+OJjeMZsU9BAzNPAber7L30ZDplnAnj8Wvz0EFxdVbKkKsCVPWBwrUIw9CiLnTTG XVx5LrvntuUEvXr1jLL58oJ6enjzSUtEbEmW0= Received: by 10.216.235.106 with SMTP id t84mr1315806weq.46.1279779091674; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v16sm3809359weq.32.2010.07.21.23.11.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:11:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:11:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100722001408.49fbf790@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100722001408.49fbf790@osage.osagesoftware.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1567101.C6WsGvqk5z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201007220711.31716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a27ae08b-0739-48e8-b9d6-99d90e058e55 X-Archives-Hash: 07a6f8acbb1c59b6fdbaa16f6fa94513 --nextPart1567101.C6WsGvqk5z Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote: > /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external > USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody > think the file system is recoverable? You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: xfs is vulnera= ble=20 to power interruptions, so a faulty USB cable can cause corruption. I have= n't=20 had a corrupted xfs system for years now, so I put initial experiences down= to=20 early (buggy) versions of the drivers. In my case, I was not able to recov= er=20 and I had to reformat and start again. After a couple of early mortality=20 cases the fs in question carried on for 4 years without a single problem. Try xfs_check and xfs_repair with the drive unmounted, but first use=20 xfs_dump/restore or dd to make a back up just in case. > Also, palimpsest is reporting (graphically) that my external hard drive is > about to die. Can I save it's report to a text file??? Sorry, can't help with that because I'm not familiar with the application. = =20 You could use sys-apps/smartmontools if you want a console application that= =20 you can copy and paste from. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1567101.C6WsGvqk5z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkxH4RMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZvawCgxnTe7h+EfZgDVRpW09YdWXNh alQAmQF1H0KOUqCkTOCmZZoYzJH4iiAc =4Eb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1567101.C6WsGvqk5z--