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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Hi, |
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>> > I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my |
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>> > MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to |
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>> > get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? |
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>> > The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, |
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>> > and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I |
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>> > cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do |
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>> > anything. Both of these fail: |
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>> > |
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>> > |
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>> > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /video |
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>> > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /video |
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>> > |
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>> > I have power cycled the drive and I've rebooted the MacMini. Nothing |
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>> > changed. |
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>> > |
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>> > Thanks in advance, |
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>> > Mark |
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>> > |
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<SNIP> |
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>> I could try reinstalling the file system but I had a few backups on |
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>> this drive for other systems. (non-critical, but possibly useful) I'd |
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>> like to be sure I cannot recover them before I blow everything away. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Mark |
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>> |
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> you might be lucky and able to use smartctl on that device. Sadly most usb |
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> converters don't support smart even when the drive does. |
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> That could tell you some more, but a quick glance says: |
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> your drive is hosed. |
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> Block errors... ugh... maybe the heads had a bit of platter contact. |
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> |
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> You can try using magicrescue - or even better photorec. |
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> they won't repair your filesystems - but they might be able to get the data off |
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> you are after. |
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> |
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> Glück Auf |
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> Volker |
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> |
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Thanks. I'll check these apps out. |
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So far the only life I've found is with e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda1. |
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This starts finding some things that make sense name-wise but then |
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starts complaining about other things. |
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Again, it's just mythtv video files so those can probably just be |
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rerecorded at some point. The backups were for my Windows machines |
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which are working right now so as long as I make some new backups |
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elsewhere I should be reasonably safe unless I find one day that |
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something I need then isn't on my machine right now. |
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Sad when your backup strategy goes against you... |
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Again, thanks for the pointers. |
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- Mark |
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