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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-) 
>

Hmmmmm, slight glitch maybe.  It listed some files with a question mark
in it but not the ones I am looking for.  So, is it possible that since
it couldn't read the file it just skipped them?  I used rsync to do the
copy instead of cp.  Maybe that is it or otherwise, I have a ton of
directories to go diggin in to find them since it isn't the one I
thought it was. 

Dale

:-)  :-)