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Recovering a faulty hard disk drive in Linux – PT1

Today, I’ve been working on a server that doesn’t want to mount one of the partitions that has been formatted with reiserfs.
Using the fsck command doesn’t work because there are bad blocks on the drive, resulting in fsck vehemently refusing to cooperate.:
Cannot read the block (41713664): (Input/output error).
To get fsck to play with such a [...]

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