[Liverpool] Re: Filesystem Nightmare

[Stephen Banks]

I had the same kinda problems with my old laptop hard drive. It seemed 
that a low level format managed to fix everything. Make sure you back 
everything up though. You don't want to be using the hard disk much more 
before you try to fix it because further errors could develop and more 
data could be lost.

Iain MacGranthin wrote:
> Have followed the steps and gotten to the next impasse:
>
> Mounted sdc2, and ran e2fsck: "e2fsck -n /dev/sdc2"
>
> (I used e2fsck as it seemed to be invoked anyway if I didn't) It has 
> returned a similar iteration of the message I have posted until:
>
> "Error reading block 44531842 (Attempt to read block from fileystem 
> resulted in short read) while doing inode scan.  Ignore error? no"
>
> (the "no" was a reply from e2fsck), then
>
> "Error while scanning inodes (22269952): Can't read next inode
> e2fsck: aborted"
>
>
> Any options?
>
> I admit this is not looking great...
>