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Grant wrote: |
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> Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it |
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> no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I |
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> prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm |
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> from starting I could log in as root but vi failed with a "Bus error". |
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> I booted a LiveCD, mounted /dev/hda3, and chrooted, but running |
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> env-update then caused all kinds of drive errors. |
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> I'd like to save the hard drive so I don't have to buy a new one and |
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> build a new system on it, but if that's not possible I'd definitely |
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> like to save my personal data from the drive. I'm busy/stupid enough |
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> to have made no backups and all of my photos etc. are on the drive. |
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> |
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> I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up |
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> normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I |
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> can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try |
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> re-emerging packages that are having trouble or should I try to emerge |
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> -e world? |
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> I suppose I should see if I can write and burn iso's of everything in |
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> /home/grant/ right away. Is there a good way to get a bunch of data |
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> into multiple iso's that are each no larger than 650MB? Also, I've |
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> read man mkisofs and experimented before with trying to preserve |
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> filenames perfectly but it never comes out quite right. Can anyone |
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> recommend mkisofs options for preserving filenames perfectly? |
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> Thanks for your time. |
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> - Grant |
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This _may_ help... http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page but I've never |
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used it in this case. |
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I would defiantly try to put the HDD in another computer and make an |
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image of it with ddrescue. |
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Other than that I would say to make a tarball of your home dir and use |
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split to break it down into CD size pieces if you can. That would take |
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care of the file name preservation. Plus you could use gzip to |
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compress. This is of course if you have room to work with the files. |
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If you could hook a removable HDD to the laptop that would be spiffy. |
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Checking the disk for problems? I would use the manufactures |
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proprietary utilities for that. Something you can put on a bootable CD |
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or floppy. |
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Thomas |
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