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Anthony Roy wrote: |
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>Hi Dale, |
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>>Google found this: |
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>>http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208&sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 |
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>Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this |
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>gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition |
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>of at least the same size as the damaged one to copy the blocks over |
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>to. Unfortunately, I haven't got another *drive* that's as big as that |
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>partition... |
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>Looks like an expensive deal for a single bad block! I'll be getting a |
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>replacement big drive to replace the damaged one, and a large |
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>external drive to use for backups. Ironic really, as the server was |
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>supposed to be my backup solution - it has my subversion repository on |
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>it, and an rsync module for backup. Unfortunatly, I'd started to use |
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>it as a webserver etc... |
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>Oh well, first disk corruption in 10 years - got to learn the hard way |
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>sometime... |
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>Ant... |
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I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over |
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25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have |
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worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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