Data recovery

[Net Llama!]

On 12/28/2004 06:54 PM, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> 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.

Ahhh.  I'd guess that running some kind of filesystem check would do the 
job effectively.  Which filesystem are you using?


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