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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote: |
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>> /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external |
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>> USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody |
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>> think the file system is recoverable? |
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> You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: xfs is vulnerable |
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> to power interruptions, so a faulty USB cable can cause corruption. |
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I had exactly this problem with a USB HDD formatted with xfs. The USB |
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cable that it came with was rubbish... the drive would disconnect & |
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reconnect on its own for no apparent reason, and corruption happened |
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of course. I replaced it with another cable and it worked fine after |
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that. |
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A few months later the power supply started to fail, it would |
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occasionally not provide enough power and the drive would go offline |
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or start beeping/clicking. At first I thought the disk was bad |
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(clicking is never good) but it was actually the sound of the drive |
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trying to spin up and failing. Eventually the power brick couldn't |
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even spin up the drive at all. I replaced the power supply and now the |
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drive works fine again, for now... |
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