Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-09-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:40:55 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >>> http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Prestige-Portable-SuperSpeed-35194/dp/ B004NIDHXC >> >> That's exactly the kind of device I would never ever buy O:-) >> >> > Do you have a make and model of hard drive that y

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:50:09PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > developing bad blocks. They are usually at room temperature (no air > conditioning), partitioned via cfdisk + mke2fs. I think room temperature is a vague term considering the temperature range which occurs in each country. T

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:35:42 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a >>> >>> $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 >>> >>> on it and it found 75

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Go Linux wrote: > --- On Thu, 8/30/12, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. >> I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. >> > > I have several external drives from iOmega that are a few years old. But > the drives inside the enclosure are Western Digital. I

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 8/30/12, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. > I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. > I have several external drives from iOmega that are a few years old. But the drives inside the enclosure are Western Digital. I've never had a problem with

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 30 August 2012 19:35:42 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > This one is very slim and does not even have an external case. > >  http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Prestige-Portable- > SuperSpeed-35194/dp/B004NIDHXC Yes, it has got a case. The case is black metal. Compact Metal Enclosure Lightw

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a >> >> $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 >> >> on it and it found 757 badblocks. The partition itself is 100 GB and >> only 18 GB of it is filled

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a > > $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 > > on it and it found 757 badblocks. The partition itself is 100 GB and > only 18 GB of it is filled. Now my question is how to