From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754507AbYLUOtU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752402AbYLUOtJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:09 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:48008 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752219AbYLUOtI (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:49:13 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Norbert Preining Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux ext3 partition hosed, is this hardware of software error? Message-ID: <20081221144913.76ca53d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081221143640.GF1509@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20081221143640.GF1509@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > ata1.00: error: { UNC } Bad sectors > Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 12 > Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 13 Right near the start of the disk. Make a copy of the partition with a recovery tool and write it somewhere (file on another disk whatever) and keep it safe. Make a copy of that and fsck the copy. You may need to use the alternate superblock option on fsck for this. Alan