fsck

[Rick C. Petty]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:41:18PM -0600, tech at nano.net wrote:
> 
> Maybe I can mount a dirty partition..... I just need the data off it...

Mount it read-only and get the data off it IMMEDIATELY.  I wouldn't try
fsck-ing on any disk with even a single read or write error.  Fsck will
fail if it can't find a real sector to allocate, and I don't think it deals
well with bad sectors anyway.  Point is:  don't let it.  "dd" the drive
ASAP and cut your losses...

-- Rick C. Petty