Re: [Sheflug] aargh, disk crash

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Monday 01 October 2001 11:08, you wrote
> 
> Knackered.

I guess I knew that the moment I heard those noises :-( hope is a 
strange thing...

>> bash-2.05# fsck /media/zip
>> Parallelizing fsck version 1.19a (13-Jul-2000)
>> fsck: fsck.auto: not found
>> fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.auto for /dev/hdd4
>> bash-2.05#
> 
> 
> You can't fsck DOS disks (assuming that's what it is?). If you formatted it 
> ext2, you can fsck.ext2 it. 

Oh, right.  Obvious now you point it out.  No, it is vfat. Thanks.

> You may want to check out badblocks(8), that'll tell you what you already 
> know. Other than that, there's not a lot you can do except to attempt to 
> retrieve as much data as possible. I wouldn't bother trying to ftp it if I 
> were you - can you not get hold of a spare hdd? It's usually  good option - 
> if you copy from one to the other using dd and small block sizes, you'll get 
> back as much of the data as possible.

yes, badblocks tells me I've about 10 bad blocks.  I'll need an hdd 
while the knackered one is out for replacement anyway; and then I'll 
want to keep it for backups (I've not been burned so badly yet, but I 
could have lost more and still could) since I need a quick and simple 
way of making incremental backups [presumably some cron scripts using 
find etc. would be enough for that?]

would a block size of 1k be sensible?  and is it relatively simple to 
fit an internal hdd (I assume that it is a matter of a screwdriver and 
plugging in some connectors)? 

thanks for the advice,

Matt.

> 


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