Questions tagged [corruption]
Corruption is a state of a file, a filesystem, etc. where all its data and metadata are not consistent. This tag may be used to reference questions dealing with problems of data recovery after erroneous manipulations or unexpected shutdown.
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Mass file integrity checking
I have many, many tb of files from over the years, stored poorly and transferred. Mostly from Win7 days.
I am mindful that bitrot is a problem and I’m sure in my travels Ive seen a couple videos which ...
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Btrfs read-only file system and corruption errors
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I am trying to figure out why my file system has become read-only so I can address any potential hardware or security issues (main concern) and maybe fix the issue without having to reinstall ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1
I'm new to Linux (just over 1 month) and I’ve encountered a problem with my drive.
I have the main drive (SSD) and a secondary drive (HDD).
The HDD was working fine, but now I’m getting this error ...
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How can I debug NTFS corruption that occurs after successful eject?
Lately when I write to an external drive formatted as NTFS* and then eject it, and wait a full minute before un-powering, then upon re-powering it won't auto-mount and manual mount attempts give an ...
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Partitioning or duplicating corrupted SSD
My SSD died and all its data seems to be inaccessible and my Windows computer won't boot anymore.
After going to a local computer store I was told that they could fix it by wiping all the data. I can ...
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How do I actually fix a badly corrupted (but with hardware OK) ext4 system?
While creating an install USB disk, I made the trivial error of indicating the wrong device, and ended up overwriting the initial few hundred megabytes of a 230 GB disk.
The data was not extremely ...
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/bin, /sbin symlinks mysteriously breaking, init file disappearing. How to debug?
Similar to here, but no solution was found for them either. I also tried checking the history, see if something was running 'rm' but no dice.
Periodically, my device stops responding. The only ...
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Ext4 formatted External HDD is corrupt, need to find backup superblocks
I have an external HDD drive formatted as Ext4 connected to my Raspberry Pi server. The server has been crashing lately and as a consequence the HDD is corrupt. When I plug to my computer and run sudo ...
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Will the Fedora Silverblue's read-only disk partition be damaged if I run "sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/drive0" from within itself?
'Drive0' refers to the disk where system is installed. Can the immutable system be damaged (meaning can its filesystem that is mounted in read-only, not counting the files that are user accessible, be ...
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Power failure while appending to ext4 file results in spurious zeros
I have an embedded device which appends data to an ext4 file in data = ordered mode until its power is cut off. To my surprise, I've noticed that this occasionally results in zeros being appended to ...
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Bad magic number in super-block on external HD after multiple power outages—still OK to use?
I have a computer at home that I use as a file server, using Nextcloud. Every computer at home is Ubuntu/etx4. I've had multiple outages recently in the neighborhood, and I think the sudden shutdowns ...
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Can't download or update anything
I'm pretty sure this has something to do with corruption as my drive was corrupted just a few days ago but I managed to fix it.
The error occurs when I try to download or update anything, for example ...
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file system on an emmc damaged by a power surge?
I'm running a Quartz64 (Model A) booting off an eMMC drive,
and it recently suffered a file system corruption
after a power outage due to a lightening strike.
After this, it wouldn't boot up. I had ...
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How do I fix a corrupted file system?
My NAS went offline today. I could not even boot up. I have extracted the OS drive (Debian Bookworm) and plugged it into my laptop via an adapter. I failed mounting it, with the error:
unknown ...
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How to repair this problematic hard drive?
I have a WD 1.3 TB hard driver, it might have some bad sectors.
I plug it in the Raspberry Pi and partition the disk with following commands
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb, then g, n, w
to create the new ...
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