Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-16 Thread Felix Miata
Stefan Monnier composed on 2018-03-16 08:38 (UTC-0400): >> My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has >> 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. > FWIW, there's a good chance that your old drive is still perfectly > usable: after backing up your data, a pass of overwri

Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has > 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. FWIW, there's a good chance that your old drive is still perfectly usable: after backing up your data, a pass of overwriting the whole disk (e.g. dd /dev/sdXX) will probably bring the

Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/15/18, Felix Miata wrote: > My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has 8 > pending > sectors reported by smartctl. e2fsck locks up the PC trying to fix its EXT2 > filesystem. I know if anything could bail me out, dd_rhelp could. > > Debian bugs Google found about d

dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-15 Thread Felix Miata
My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. e2fsck locks up the PC trying to fix its EXT2 filesystem. I know if anything could bail me out, dd_rhelp could. Debian bugs Google found about dd_rhelp: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu