On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:33:54AM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With bad-block remapping, you don't really know where the "damaged part
> > of the drive" is. I would go with one whole partition and if after
> > fsck -c -c ther
On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:58:47PM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged
> > > drive I w
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Firebeam wrote:
> pol wrote:
>
> >Which program to scan and discard badblocks (ext3 file system)?
>
> I think they mean badblocks(8).
> As usual, man badblocks for more info :-)
>
And man e2fsck. The -c -c runs badblocks(8) for you. Note that the
badb
pol wrote:
Which program to scan and discard badblocks (ext3 file system)?
I think they mean badblocks(8).
As usual, man badblocks for more info :-)
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:58:47PM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged
> > drive I wanted to try to reuse, I wouldn't put real data on it until I
> > had exercised
On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged
> drive I wanted to try to reuse, I wouldn't put real data on it until I
> had exercised it for 24 hrs straight anyway.
I agree, stress it as much as you can,
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:14:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/07/08 08:00, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote:
> >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>>Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't
> >>>reformat it or you'll have
On Jan 6, 2008 4:04 PM, pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu).
> How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?
Basically, you can'
On 01/07/08 08:00, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't
reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use
# e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx
That was my firs
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:19:16AM +0100, pol wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't
> > reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use
> > # e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx
>
> That was my first recovering oeration.
> It i
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't
> reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use
> # e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx
That was my first recovering oeration.
It is about 10 hours 'fsck.ext3' is running now, yet less than half
par
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:12:25PM +0100, pol wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed,
> > the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get?
>
> The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was runnin
David wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote:
>>> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
>>> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or
>>> kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote:
I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu).
How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed,
> the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get?
>
The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was running.
I can't rmemeber the error messages, but they were sugegst
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote:
> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu).
> How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?
Why?
How do you kno
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:04:10 +0100
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu).
> How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?
>
> Th
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote:
> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its
> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu).
> How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?
I assume you know wh
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