[Wolves] Hard drive failure

[Ron Wellsted]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:28 +0000, Wayne Morris wrote:
> Anyone help me out with this one.
>  
> Maxtor 40 gb drive was mounted as a storage drive in a Fedora core
> system.
> On a reboot it came up with 'SMART error back up and replace''
> At this point it still mounted but most directories were missing, but
> kdiskfree show the correct used amount.
> Now it won't mount at all, but is detectable by the bios , hdparm
> reports correct parameters.
> Mount reports input/output error.
> mount -t ext3 gives 'wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or too
> many mounted file systems'
>  
> Any other tools to rescue this or is it ferked?
>  
> Cheers
>  

The error message suggests a bad sector in the superblock, fortunately
fsck.ext[23] can use the -b option to specify the use of an alternative
superblock.  Try "fsck.ext3 -b 8193 /dev/hd??" this might work.  If the
1st spare superblock is not found at this location, fsck will not
continue so it should not make the situation worse.

Good Luck

-- 
Ron Wellsted
http://www.wellsted.org.uk
ron at wellsted.org.uk
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