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Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Friday, July 29, 2011 02:41:20 PM Dale wrote: |
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>> I sort of gave up on this drive. I had a very kind soul to send me a |
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>> video card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. I |
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>> copied all I could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such. |
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>> Anyway, I'm doing this right now: |
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>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc |
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>> I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank. I'll |
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>> recreate my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let |
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>> me copy back to it or not. |
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> It will, is this the dodgy one? |
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> If yes, and this works, then there likely is/was something wrong with the |
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> filesystem itself that the filecheck tools didn't find. |
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> In this case, a copy would be really usefull for developers to try to find out |
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> what was actually causing the issue. |
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That was the dodgy one. After dd finished, I created a new file system, |
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copied my data back over and it has been working fine ever since. So, |
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it was not the drive itself or at least appears not to be anyway. It |
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doesn't seem to have been the kernel or related either. Something just |
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got messed up on the drive somewhere. I think we beat the crap out of |
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everything else. ;-) I do find it odd that it caused a panic like |
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this. If the OS was on it, then I could see it doing that but not just |
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a data drive Should have been a error in messages, dmesg or something |
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other than a panic. |
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>> While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the |
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>> biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other |
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>> shows that are now gone. Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for |
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>> videos on a 750Gb drive? I had reiserfs on it before. |
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> For large filesizes, I tend to use XFS. |
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> For small filesizes (like email and website), I tend to use reiserfs. |
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> Not sure what other options there are. |
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> JFS might also be good for large filesizes, but then you definitely need a |
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> good and reliable UPS to shut down cleanly. (If I remember it all correctly) |
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I used XFS before and I still have a bad taste from it. You are correct |
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on needing a UPS if you use XFS. The rig I used it on didn't have that |
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so it crashed and burned with each power failure hence the bad taste. :/ |
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I went with ext4 for the file system. It seems to work OK. I still got |
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my fingers crossed. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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