2010/2/19 Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com>: > > a hd in my server failed. > > I noticed when I went to SSH in and get a copy of some files in /var/www/html > I tried to tar the files and I was told No, read-only file system. > > I restarted and tried running FSCK manually (without -a or -p) and I get inode errors, short reads, etc. > > I tried booting to my CentOS 53 install DVD. I do linux rescue and I get to where it wants to know where CentOS images are. I select local CD-ROM and it just spits it out at me and tells me to try someplace else. Even though I booted from the CD! > > I am not sure what else to do. I dont think I can mount this on my macBook to do anything. But I really need just the data from /var/www/html. I have a backup that is a week old, but I know changes were made late last week that I would like to not have to do again.... > > Where is my backup of the changes I made? Well my SSD drive failed in my laptop and I dont think I have them... > > Can anyone provide advice as to what to do next? Well, you can use dd_rescue to copy contents of disk to another disk and then mount it (or use expensive data rescue company) > > Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months. Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? -- Eero