Thanks for the support guys. The partition definetly looks damaged. Using ddrescue, I'm seeing ~30 errors within 2 MB of data. Unfortunately, the local drive doesn't have the capacity to backup the damaged partition, so I mounted an NFS share on my server that does have the capacity, and pointed the output of ddrescue there. But, I guess I don't have NFS configured properly as I can transfer only 2 MB before getting a "File exceeds maximum size" type error... I've just finished putting a spare 80GB drive in the box to take care of this problem...
All this in an attempt to save some specific files that I have no guarantee will be intact when the job is done... <sighs> Good thing most of the critical stuff was stored on my server.... Shawn On Friday 15 July 2005 17:21, Gustin Johnson wrote: > There is probably a mess of the "Drive not ready" errors in your dmesg > output (or var log syslog). > > dd will fail when it encounters errors. What you are looking for is > ddrescue which ignores errors. > > If you have enough space elsewhere on the network you might be able to get > away with an rsync, though you'll have to successfully mount the partition > first (try -o ro). > > Best of luck. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
