On 05/08/2015 at 07:08 PM, German wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2015 23:54:46 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Friday 08 May 2015 23:07:34 German wrote: >> >>> Can I try to run fsck on the failed drive? >> >> They are *your* files. But given that you have actually got a >> suitable disk, i would at least dd them first onto that. > > That's what I got: > > spore@asterius:~$ lsblk > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:0 0 119.2G 0 disk > ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi > ├─sda2 8:2 0 111.3G 0 part / > └─sda3 8:3 0 7.4G 0 part [SWAP] > sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk > sdc 8:32 0 1.8T 0 disk /media/spore/9F86-0131 > sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk > └─sdd1 8:49 0 1.8T 0 part > > Where sdd is my failed drive. sdc is my spare drive. The correct > procedure will be ddrescue if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/sdc ?
No. That might potentially work (except that, if I'm reading the ddrescue man page correctly, the syntax is wrong), but it wouldn't be correct. First, unmount /dev/sdc. Then do one of two things: 1) Create /dev/sdc1 (as an unformatted partition, using fdisk or parted or whatever partitioning tool you choose), and then run ddrescue /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /any/path/you/want/ddrescue.log 2) run ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /any/path/you/want/ddrescue.log (Don't do both, of course.) Note that I did NOT specify the 'if=' and 'of=' syntax. That is correct syntax for dd, but the ddrescue man page does not mention it, and I believe that it is incorrect syntax for ddrescue. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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