On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 10:36:26PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> On 2020-08-29 22:15, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> >>dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sdx
> >
> >That will just erase the first megabyte of the drive, leaving
> >utilit
On 2020-08-29 22:15, Gregory Nowak wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sdx
That will just erase the first megabyte of the drive, leaving
utilities like cfdisk to think the drive is new and unformatted. It
won't attempt to ove
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sda
That will just erase the first megabyte of the drive, leaving
utilities like cfdisk to think the drive is new and unformatted. It
won't attempt to over write the bad sector(s) though. See the ot
I was wondering if a reformat might be possible but if it requires the
nuclear option so be it. LOL! I've only had to dd a handful of times so
searched and found this command to zero a drive. Will that get the job
done? Any idea how long that might take on a 1 TB drive? There is
cost|benefit
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 04:35:01PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> What are the chances of fsck repairing the bad sectors? I shamefully admit I
> have not thought about fsck for years.
This looks to be at the media level, so is most likely beyond
fsck. Since you said you can afford to lose this
If you just want to reuse the physical drive, without the data, there is a
way to do that. Write zeros the entire length of the block device. If there
are enough spare sectors left on the disk, the bad ones will be relocated
as you write them. The various disk tools will then tell you what the
over
On 2020-08-29 18:13, terryc wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:35:01 -0500
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
PS. There is no critical data on this disk because I always keep
multiple backups. But it would be nice to have that drive functioning
in some capacity.
The only other suggestion is 'the put it i
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:35:01 -0500
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> PS. There is no critical data on this disk because I always keep
> multiple backups. But it would be nice to have that drive functioning
> in some capacity.
The only other suggestion is 'the put it in the freezer trick' which
may w
On 2020-08-29 17:15, Bruce Perens via Dng wrote:
Copy the block partition (not the mounted files) to a same size or
larger
blank block partition using ddrescue or gddrescue. Try to mount that
read
only and copy the files off. If it doesn't work, try to restore the
superblock using one of the tu
On 2020-08-29 16:52, Dimitris via Dng wrote:
On 8/30/20 12:35 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
advice is most welcome.
Thanks, Dimitris . . .
maybe a "long shot" , but did you try another cable/adapter/case for
that disk?
Yes. Tested different usb and adapter. Have ordered a dock which wi
Copy the block partition (not the mounted files) to a same size or larger
blank block partition using ddrescue or gddrescue. Try to mount that read
only and copy the files off. If it doesn't work, try to restore the
superblock using one of the tutorials online.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 2:52 PM Dimitr
On 8/30/20 12:35 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> advice is most welcome.
maybe a "long shot" , but did you try another cable/adapter/case for
that disk?
a few badblocks (?) would slow down the whole disk and maybe not open
some folder(s)...
"input/output error" and smart "read failure" could be s
Dear Dev1ers,
I have an oldish external 1 TB backup drive that is throwing up this
mount error. Drive is single ext4 partition about 70% full:
Error when trying to mount:
Failed to open directory "cstwo".
Error when getting information for file '/media/xx/cstwo/600':
Input/output error.
Le 29/08/2020 à 11:24, Didier Kryn a écrit :
> Le 28/08/2020 à 15:39, Adam Borowski a écrit :
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 08:37:07AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
for something which might be a file or a directory?
Theref
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