Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> It was more Murphy's law I was worried about.  ;-) 
>> Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law?
>>
>>
> 
> If it hasn't, maybe it should.  It's strange tho, I have good luck with
> a lot of things, even computer hardware really, but messing with some
> new software generally leads to trouble.  Hal was the first really bad
> thing.  There was some other thing that popped up that I can't recall
> and recently the init thingy kept me from booting.  I then booted the
> init thingy off here.  I just keep a up to date Kubuntu disk laying
> around.  ;-)  New software just doesn't like me or my rig much.  Older
> stuff seems to work fine.  It's the things that seem to be new that
> really crawl under my skin.  It seems they always bite me even when it
> works for most everyone else.  That was pretty much the case with hal. 
> It just would not work on my rig.  I give the dev credit tho, he
> realized it was a mess and started over from scratch.  At least he
> realized the boo boo. 
> 
> On this old drive.  I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out
> of the new drive and then tested it a few more times.  Looks good for
> the new drive.  I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it
> at least get to where that bad spot is.  I figure if I let dd do its
> thing on the whole drive, that should get it, unless I lose power or
> something and have to stop it.  After that, I'm going to put a file
> system on it and fill it up and test it and see what it says then. 
> Maybe it will fix itself and I can at least use it as a occasional
> backup or something.   I dunno. 
> 
> I noticed when I copied the data over that some files had a line of
> question marks in the name.  Since a question mark is a wild card, I
> can't find them now.  How does one search for a file name that has a
> wild card in it?


escape the character with a \

But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the
source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read
properly. So junk was used instead.

Reasons vary, but the basics never change: there is a problem with your
source disk and now you need to go find what that problem is.





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Alan McKinnon
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