On 09-10-16 00:00:16, charles zeitler wrote:
> thanks for the help...
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Tony Nelson
> > I don't know of anything specifically intended to find the damaged
> > files. e2fsck will map out bad blocks, but doesn't (AFAIK) tell
> > one which files are damaged. I think tar can be used to find such,
> > files but I'm not sure. As you know of one file that has a
> > problem, I suggest trying this command on the directory which
> > contains that file:
> >
> > # tar -cf - --ignore-failed-read /path/to/bad/file's/dir \
> > /dev/null
> >
> > Possibly -v will also be needed. In that case, the full scan
> should
> > probably write the messages to a file:
> >
> > # tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \
> > >/dev/null 2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt
> >
> > I don't happen to have any bad blocks to try this on.
> tar seems not to read files that are headed to /dev/null (?)
Lovely. Well then:
# tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \
2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null
> trying cat instead. since i am working with hundreds of
> gigabytes... it could take awhile.
Good luck.
--
____________________________________________________________________
TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
