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