Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-09-05 13:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: > This seems to say we now have two independent levels of bad block > checking. > > When the low-level one fails, the other takes over. I't expect the > file system to be unlikely to see bad blocks until the drive is hosed. That is true if the drive is S

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 09:07:10PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > On 9/5/20 3:34 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > ... > > Yes we do! I checked a log I had saved from before I did the e2fsck and > > those values are identical to the post-e2fsck log. > > If they are identical, then it would seem that t

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 05 September 2020 at 19:28:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:50:32PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > If you delete lost+found by accident, you can recreate it with > > mklost+found(8). > > So lost+found isn't identified by its file name but by something else > wit

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:50:32PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:25:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Delete the contents all you want, but keep the lost and found directory. > > If you delete lost+found by accident, you can recreate it with > mklost+found(8). So lost

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 12:50 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: Reallocation, to my knowledge, should happen in the background. It's *possible* that the reallocation event and the FS corruption are unrelated. My understanding is that the drive won't attem

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 3:21 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: My board doesn't have an eSATA port. Neither does the new dock but at least it is USB 3.0.  Current enclosures are 2.0 . . . ... If you are a data hoarder and like disks, I'd suggest getting your hands on some hardware that has a SATA controller.

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 3:34 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: ... Yes we do! I checked a log I had saved from before I did the e2fsck and those values are identical to the post-e2fsck log. If they are identical, then it would seem that the fsck did not trigger the reallocation. However, what caused the corrupt

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-05 Thread spiralofhope
On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:22:56 -0500 goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-09-04 19:24, spiralofhope wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0500 > > goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > > >> ...2 new 500 GB WD Black drives... > > Not sure if they still have the 5 yr. warranty though . . . They do, b