From: Ram on
houghi wrote:
> Ram wrote:
>> houghi wrote:
>>> Ram wrote:
>>>> Give testdisk a try.
>>> root(a)penne : testdisk
>>> -bash: testdisk: command not found
>>>
>>> and neither YaST nor pin has it.
>>>
>>> houghi
>> Correct if you have not installed it.
>>
>> Wasn't feeling to well last night so here you go.
>>
>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>
> Doesn't seem to do anything. Apparently I need to do the following:
> However there I get:
>
> Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you
> do):Yes
>
> The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad
> blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one
> bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your
> sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much
> higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is
> probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and
> data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then
> if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and
> see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it
> has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number).
> If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs
> utils to handle this block correctly.
>
> bread: Cannot read the block (8210): (Input/output error).
>
> Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/system/LVM exited with signal
> 6. fsck.reiserfs /dev/system/LVM failed (status 0x8). Run manually!
> </quote>
>
> I do not believe it to be a hardwrae problem, but I also do not know how
> to run it manualy, even after reading up on the manpages.
>
> houghi

Maybe it's not the program for your issue, it's worked for me with other
drive issues but alas I'm no expert with it so can't advise. :(

Ram