On Fri, 08 May 2015 19:20:37 -0400 The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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 Ok, I think I am getting closer. How big is a log file? Can it be anywhere on all drives that have enough space? For instance: ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /dev/sda2/ddrescue.log will work? > > (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. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150508193351.0a4f9...@asterius.asterius.net
