thanks for the help... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Tony Nelson >> well, the results are in. >> >> >> does this mean i have 90% unchecked? and 12 uncorrectable blocks? > > Yes, it seems to have given up at 12 blocks. The trick is to find what > files those are and deal with them, so that the test can be run again > to see what else it might find. Once the damaged files are found, you > can decide whether to recover them, restore them from backup or some > other source, or just delete them. > > 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 (?) trying cat instead. since i am working with hundreds of gigabytes... it could take awhile. charles zeitler -- Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines