From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HA8we-0001sb-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:03:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0PI1a65014285; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:01:36 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0PHu8C9007136 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:56:08 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2007 17:56:08 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-057-088-051.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO huxley.mblan) [84.57.88.51] by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2007 18:56:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428074 Received: by huxley.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D241D197302; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:55:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:55:07 +0100 From: Matthias Bethke To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help Message-ID: <20070125175507.GA11364@huxley> References: <49bf44f10701250820n4ad79b8dudcdba5a8e584545@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10701250820n4ad79b8dudcdba5a8e584545@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: da20cf23-5533-4721-8c4e-0683c37be758 X-Archives-Hash: e154dc38c036cfb71f9ae702e8a6f57d --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Grant, on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote: > I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up > normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I > can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try > re-emerging packages that are having trouble or should I try to emerge > -e world? As Thomas said, use the manufacturer's tools. Maybe smartmontools if you don't have anything more specialized. > I suppose I should see if I can write and burn iso's of everything in > /home/grant/ right away. Is there a good way to get a bunch of data > into multiple iso's that are each no larger than 650MB? Also, I've > read man mkisofs and experimented before with trying to preserve > filenames perfectly but it never comes out quite right. Can anyone > recommend mkisofs options for preserving filenames perfectly? I'd recommend trying it over a network or USB/IEEE1394 to another disk if at all possible. If the HD is dying anyway, writing ISOs to it while reading many files from another region of the disk at the same time will kill it very quickly. Same thing with a damaged file system: the more you write, the greater the damage. I'd try to connect an external HD or export a partition on some machine on the net, mount the partition read-only and back it up using tar. Then it's at least reformat/restore if not swap HD/format/restore. good luck! Matthias --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFuO77SNkXAPrDdmURAspnAJ9euhE10+7wYQJoytwWM27JMcsE+ACeOSsY c1SU7xCo5i+FLMzpn02VxLA= =iXM5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list