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Hi Grant, |
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on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote: |
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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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As Thomas said, use the manufacturer's tools. Maybe smartmontools if |
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you don't have anything more specialized. |
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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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I'd recommend trying it over a network or USB/IEEE1394 to another disk |
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if at all possible. If the HD is dying anyway, writing ISOs to it while |
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reading many files from another region of the disk at the same time will |
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kill it very quickly. Same thing with a damaged file system: the more |
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you write, the greater the damage. I'd try to connect an external HD or |
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export a partition on some machine on the net, mount the partition |
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read-only and back it up using tar. Then it's at least reformat/restore |
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if not swap HD/format/restore. |
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good luck! |
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Matthias |
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