Hi all
Funnily enough, I was reading about the prolonged hard drive price hike
yesterday and hey presto, looks like I have my own drive failure today.
Can anyone suggest if the following is terminal?
I got the Ubuntu "Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init" and (not
surprisingly) no GUI. Thinking a damaged fs, I got myself a Slax livecd
and booted into a terminal and then gave it a bit of:
e2fsck /dev/sda1 -f -y -v
only to be confronted with:
root@slax:~# e2fsck /dev/sda1 -f -y -v
e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/sda1: recovering journal
/dev/sda1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while reading block 9337460
JBD: Failed to read block at offset 30802
e2fsck: Input/output error while recovering ext3 journal of /dev/sda1
root@slax:~#
Looks pretty terminal to me but I've never been too hot on low level stuff
like this. My question is:
1) Is that it for the drive i.e. chuck it away (responsibly of course) or
2) Is that it for the fs but the drive can be reused (i.e. a reinstall)?
Either way - anyone know how I recover such data as there is on it? There
wasn't much.
Cheers
Rob
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