phunni Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 My hard drive has gone on me - my system has become increadibly unstable - if I can even get it started! I suspect that it's beyond repair, but what would the command be to try and fix a reiserfs partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Is it a hardware failure or software failure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 hardware - my root partition (I hope it's only the one partition)is dying. I was hoping I could run some kind of disk checking/fixing utility... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 I think that you need a good utility to move and mark the sectors. Moving the boot sector is possible, but you need a utility. Might try the websight of the hard drive manufacturer. I knw that Maxtor offers utilties for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Man I hope this isn't in Arch that it's happening, because right now I'm running Arch with reisferfs. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 My thinking is if it is hardware, copying or cloning the partition is the way, and moving the boot sector. Actually, might want to get a new hard drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Think I am going to get a new drive. I managed to bakc most of the important stuff up using knoppix so I'm going to try a reformat - but then it's off to buy a new drive. and jet2k5 - don't worry. I certain this is nothing to do with the distro I'm using - it really is a purely hardware problem. I think it was caused by my video card and a later version of xorg and fluxbox not getting on to well. Had a few system lockups and had to switch off - did it a few too many times I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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