Comments on: Surviving a Linux Filesystem Failures

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:37:58 +0000

This post saves the world

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:12:41 +0000

I have nothing to add except a “thank you”. Easily-comprehensible tutorials are hard to come by.

By: Fabio Souza

Fabio Souza — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:54:10 +0000

Thanks man, you save my life… God bless you!

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:22:35 +0000

oops…

fsck -f -b “any superblock location” -y /dev/sdc3

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:21:05 +0000

Hi,

I tried some data recovery programs and they all found the files on /dev/sdc3 BUT

ANY attempt to “fsck -f -b -y /dev/sdc3″ results in

/: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 525

/: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading journal superblock

fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /

any Idea before I jump out of the window ?

many thanks

By: victor elorza

victor elorza — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:18:00 +0000

hello!
every command i run results in this message:
e2fsck: attempt to read block form filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1. Could this be a zero-length partition?

i can determine alternative superblock locations but the command e2fsck -f -b 32768 /dev/sda1 + with other superblock locations doesn’t work.
please help thanks !!

By: j01z

j01z — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:43:20 +0000

Thanks a lot! just recovered my baby’s pictures, you’re now her fairy godfather ;p

By: justin

justin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:04:22 +0000

Thanks man! Recoverd Files from my HDD which i thought was broken!
i owe you a beer.

By: snevi

snevi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:12:52 +0000

Thank u very much for this tips!! it helps a lot to recover a main disc in my server!!!
thanks.

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:09:13 +0000

“That works great IF your system will give you a terminal window. If you don’t get that far, you are SOL.”

That’s what Live CDs are for… ;)

Thanx for this page-I was able to completely recover a borked system. A great resource!

By: maxcomx

maxcomx — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:09:57 +0000

can’t read superblock

max@max-laptop:~$ sudo fsck -f /dev/sdd1
fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
65:01/00
1) Copy original to backup
2) Copy backup to original
3) No action
? 3
Both FATs appear to be corrupt. Giving up.
max@max-laptop:~$

Hummm… WTF… what can i do.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:27:24 +0000

That works great IF your system will give you a terminal window. If you don’t get that far, you are SOL.

By: Thomas Scott

Thomas Scott — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:56:01 +0000

Its easy to trash the old fs and
create a new one , because data
is never “hooked” to a particular
fs !
LiLo , LoadLin et al will still
boot linux fine .
Its easy cause the IDE HDD is
much easier to figure , there
is no need for partitions , nor
any other “dependencies” .
And drivers are much smaller .

The reason we dont improve ,
is someones paycheck is in it ,
to keep it complicated .
Its not unlike what Bill Gates
did to USB …

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:04:00 +0000

Typo is corrected; Thanks for the heads up!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:10:00 +0000

I think you meant your dd command to have dd if=… of=…. (the of is missing). cheers, DrD