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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] disk error, where?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:14:27
Message-Id: 20110117195649.GN5748@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] disk error, where? by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> [11-01-17 20:44]:
2 > Am 17.01.2011 20:15, schrieb meino.cramer@×××.de:
3 > > When switched to display sector units it is only a matter of counting
4 > > to find the partition in question I would guess...
5 >
6 > Errm, yes, I thought of this as well, as always *after* posting to the ML.
7 >
8 >
9 > # fdisk -l -u /dev/sdb
10 >
11 > [..]
12 >
13 > /dev/sdb4 39889395 1953520064 956815335 5 Extended
14 > /dev/sdb5 39889458 1717621604 838866073+ 8e Linux LVM
15 > /dev/sdb6 1717621668 1953520064 117949198+ fd Linux raid
16 > autodetect
17 >
18 > So sector 1835240116 should be part of sdb6, right?
19 >
20 > So my hopes are high to be able to cp all the sdb5-content while the hdd
21 > is still alive (yes, I have backups, but not up to the latest ...)
22 >
23 > Thanks, Stefan
24 >
25
26 Hi Stefan,
27
28 The chances are high, that only one file is "killed" by this, since
29 most of the data on a hd is not of organisational matter.
30
31 Simply try the following on sdb6
32
33 cd "sdb6"
34 sudo find . -type f exec cat\{\} > /dev/null \;
35
36 Regardless of the time it will cost to cat ALL files, it will
37 fail on that file with the bad sector...
38
39 Good luck!
40 mcc