[Tfug] fsck question

[David Rice]

If linux can see the tape drive use tar
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Jon <bigj at voipmogul.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:28:37 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:58 PM,  <bigj at voipmogul.net> wrote:
>>
>>> So after a reboot my system decided it needed to fsck an ext3 volume used
>>> for data and it has found errors like this:
>>>
>>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
>>> Inode 1245190 has illegal block(s).  Clear<y>?
>>>
>>> In all my years I've just cleared the block but since this data has a
>>> little
>>> more importance I figured I would ask, should I be clearing this? My
>>> hunch
>>> is clearing that bad blocks will most likely ruin whatever data resided
>>> there. Correct? Any other actions I can take?
>>>
>>
>> So, the disk itself, how bad is it?  Unknown?  You can try e2fsck -n
>> to see just how many there are going to be and also perhaps play with
>> -c to fiddle with badblocks.  But at the end of the day (baring
>> expensive stuff), you're going to have some holes in your data,
>> somewhere.  Or at least that's my recollection + quick googling.
>>
>
> There isn't too many illegal blocks. I _think_ these came from too many
> improper shutdowns of the computer. I fully expect to lose some data <insert
> explicative) but oh well. I just wasn't sure if there was a way to dd the
> data to another partition before I start clearing inodes and such.
>
>
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