hard disk failure

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

> which means bad disk. Right?
Wrong...
It means "Bad operator", don't blame the tools...   :) 

What does:
tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN
says?
ET 

 

Michael Havens writes: 

> 30 gigs is what it was.... that might be bad. I ran it against one
> partition rather than the whole disk so it should be smaller... shouldn't
> it be? 
> 
> another thing....
> I tried to mount sda1 abd it tells me that I need to specify the file type
> so I try with ext4, 3, and 2 but they all returned with the same error
> (mount: wrong fs type) so I check dmesg|tail and the reply is: 
> 
>      NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill)super(): Not an NTFS volume.
>      UDF-fs: No VRS found....
>      UDF-fs: rescanning....
>      UDF-fs: No VRS found
>      UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
>      etc.... 
> 
> I get it If you issue the mount caommand it automatically tries to mount
> with each filesystem it knows about. So basically all of my filesystems got
> erased.... which means bad disk. Right? 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote: 
> 
>> is this a 30GB disk? 
>>
>> if so... This looks perfect.  Otherwise, I hope your block size was
>> something other than the default 512 bytes. 
>>
>> Kevin 
>>
>> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
>> > <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> >         Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
>> >         as root:
>> >         dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
>> >         Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other
>> >         error than "read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
>> >         ET
>> >
>> > It finished with no error. The return was:
>> >
>> >      55285760+0 records in
>> >      55285760+0 records out
>> >
>> > Is that a good sign?
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