Reiserf recovery of USB drive

nutthick · 04-07-2005, 03:40 AM

I've got a USB drive that has got a corrupted Reiserf file system. How can I recover it, as I can't even mount the drive to look at it? I've look at the tutorial on this site, but it only seems to allow for IDE drives. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Thoreau · 04-07-2005, 04:59 AM

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

If yoru usb is detected, it should be there. The device will attached as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 depending on if you have another scsi device present.

init 3
reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/sda1
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/sda1

If it gives you permission problems,

mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1

nutthick · 04-07-2005, 01:48 PM

I got an error on both commands

bread: Cannot read the blocks (16004): (Input/output error).

Aborted

The blurb before it said that it was probably due to a hardware error, I'm using a 1 month old Lacie drive. Everthing started going wrong when the drive got unplugged without being unmounted.

Any ideas on how to proceed. It's no big deal if it has to be reformatted as this is just a test setup to check the reliability of the backup system (the Lacie) LOL.

Thanks for your help so far

Thoreau · 04-07-2005, 02:31 PM

If you can't mount it, your drive is dead. Reiserfs does not screw up in my experience unless you have a drive degraded or dead. RMA your drive.