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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote:
>> 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.
>

Well, the drive is replaced but it copied the "bad" file over as well. 
I just want to find it so that I can check it and delete it if it is
bad.  It's one of my videos so no point in some corrupted file hanging
around if it is no good.  Plus, I hope I can figure out what is missing
and find a copy on youtube or something.  Maybe I will be that lucky. 

Now to go see if I can find it again.  ;-)

Thanks. 

Dale

:-)  :-)