Data recovery

[Shawn Tayler]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:47:50 -0800 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
exclaimed:

> On 12/28/2004 06:12 AM, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On a side to the previous email.  I recently had some read errors on a
> > Quantum Atlas 10K HD, 80G.  It was unfortunately the /usr partition.  I
> > copied all the data off and installed a new drive.  restoring the data
> >  and reinstalling most of the packages seems to have fixed the problem,
> >  but
> > I am feeling that there is something left that is not quite right.  I'd
> 
> Something left where?  What leads you to believe this?
> 
> > like to spin up the failed unit and see what files are effected.  Is
> > there a utility around that would assist in this?
> 
> Assist in what?

Sorry,

I was hurried and rather short on details.  The drive in question was my
workstations /usr.  I started getting sense errors and quickly copied
everything off of it to another drive.  I then replaced the bad drive with
one of the same type, brand new.  I copied everything back but some apps,
namely lpr, X, bash were behaving strangely.  I did a reinstall of all
packages that had been updated through swaret(slackware 10 system).  And
have cleared the obvious problems.

What I want to do is mount the bad drive on another box and run a read-only
test to see what files on the drive are affected.  This would help in
figuring out what other application should be rebuilt or reinstalled.

Shawn