Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

[Grant]

I ran 'fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda3' and it detected and corrected a bunch
of stuff.  After that, /bin/bash was missing so I copied it from a
LiveCD and now it's behaving exactly as it was before I ran fsck.

Do you know of any way to try and bring the hard drive in its current
form back to full usability?  Is emerge -e world possibly worth a try?

If I can't bring the drive back to life as it is now, it sounds like I
should use tar, split, and cdrecord to save /home/grant/, build a new
system either on the same drive or a new one, and copy in
/home/grant/.

Does anyone know of a way to find out if the hard drive is usable
without just installing a new system on it and seeing if it works?  I
can't find any information on the Fujitsu site.

- Grant

On 1/25/07, Thomas Lingefelt <tomtechguy@×××××.com> wrote:
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> Grant wrote:
> > Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it
> > no longer boots.  It initially hung on starting hald, and once I
> > prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm
> > from starting I could log in as root but vi failed with a "Bus error".
> > I booted a LiveCD, mounted /dev/hda3, and chrooted, but running
> > env-update then caused all kinds of drive errors.
> >
> > I'd like to save the hard drive so I don't have to buy a new one and
> > build a new system on it, but if that's not possible I'd definitely
> > like to save my personal data from the drive.  I'm busy/stupid enough
> > to have made no backups and all of my photos etc. are on the drive.
> >
> > I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up
> > normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good.  Is there a utility I
> > can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage?  Should I try
> > re-emerging packages that are having trouble or should I try to emerge
> > -e world?
> >
> > I suppose I should see if I can write and burn iso's of everything in
> > /home/grant/ right away.  Is there a good way to get a bunch of data
> > into multiple iso's that are each no larger than 650MB?  Also, I've
> > read man mkisofs and experimented before with trying to preserve
> > filenames perfectly but it never comes out quite right.  Can anyone
> > recommend mkisofs options for preserving filenames perfectly?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > - Grant
>
> This _may_ help... http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page but I've never
> used it in this case.
>
> I would defiantly try to put the HDD in another computer and make an
> image of it with ddrescue.
>
> Other than that I would say to make a tarball of your home dir and use
> split to break it down into CD size pieces if you can.  That would take
> care of the file name preservation.  Plus you could use gzip to
> compress.  This is of course if you have room to work with the files.
> If you could hook a removable HDD to the laptop that would be spiffy.
>
> Checking the disk for problems?  I would use the manufactures
> proprietary utilities for that.  Something you can put on a bootable CD
> or floppy.
>
> Thomas
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