> On 13 Oct 2014, at 11:19, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:05:49 +0100 > Tom Mason <tom_mason@xxxxxx> écrivait: > >>> Which means the filesystem tried to read the offset at 62GB and the >>> underlying device failed it with EIO. That's not an XFS failure. >>> What error is there in dmesg when you run that xfs_repair command? >> >> What's EIO? >> 'Error in dmesg' How would I report this info to you? > > "Input/Output Error" . Run the "dmesg" command immediately after > this error, and see what it reports last (end of command output). > >>> This asks you to post the contents of /proc/partitions, which is >>> what the kernel thinks are the partition sizes. >> >> How do I do this? > > cat /proc/partitions > >>>> Yes it's a NAS drive and so I assume had some kind of proprietary >>>> OS on the other partitions (this is where i might have messed up >>>> by deleting?!) I'm pretty sure that the drive in bold below (sdc2) >>>> is the one I'm after which is xfs... >>> >>> Ummm, exactly what are you trying to do with this drive/filesystem? >>> What device did the drive come from in the first place? >> >> It's a lacie 'Neil poulton' network space1 1tb NAS drive (see first >> paragraph of post) - it recently stopped working and was stuck in a >> 'spin cycle' - it contains my music and video backups. I'm trying to >> recover the files... > > Most probably disk is badly damaged, dead or dying. It's advisable to > try to create an image of the disk on another one, and work for this > image, because this disk will probably die any time now. It's no use > trying to repair a filesystem on a bad drive, which is the cause of the > errors from the beginning. > > If all you care is to get your files back, just try to mount the volume > in read-only, non-recovery mode : > > mount -o ro,norecovery /dev/sdc2 /tmp/mount > > Then proceed by copying whatever you can get. Consider that any file > that gives an error is lost. > > The other option is Kroll Ontrack or similar services, of course. > > Emmanuel Florac Thanks everyone - I'm away from the device at the moment so will report back when I get home, in about 8 hours or so.. Tom _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
