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[196.215.51.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ja9sm8000180wic.8.2014.06.28.06.09.10 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53AEBE45.4090701@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:08:21 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <53AAF0CB.4060902@gmail.com> <20140625170952.3f3250c8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <201406251745.06064.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20140625182940.5e6e4adf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <53AB4A31.3030104@gmail.com> <53AEAD30.5060607@gmail.com> <20140628134032.48f92cab@digimed.co.uk> <53AEBDA1.8010109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53AEBDA1.8010109@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9c0a3050-f2c2-4231-af42-4f65ac9d6c7d X-Archives-Hash: 1f1fcdde4c3ed6be6694c419f38311e9 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com