Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-25 Thread suvayu ali
Happy to report everything went well. This is what I did, 1. Boot and make sure the faulty disk is not mounted. 2. run the following, # ddrescue -b 500M -n /dev/sd[faulty] /dev/sd[new] rescue.log # ddrescue -dr3 /dev/sd[faulty] /dev/sd[new] rescue.log # 2-3 times And now I have an exact c

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-22 Thread JB
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > ... Some additional hints: - one more link to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery - unmount source when doing dd-type operation - consider destination size when doing dd-type operation (it must be equal or greater than source) Note: /* quote

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Suomi and JB, On Saturday 21 August 2010 10:37 PM, fedora wrote: > Hi Suvayu > I have made bad experiences with LVM toghether with ext4 and fedora 13. > I got hundreds of > I have been using LVM for some time now. And my experience has been quite pleasant. I think I'll stick to it for a while

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-22 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... Please disregard it - I assumed it was lost. I reposted it. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mai

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-22 Thread JB
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > Recently one of my hard drives developed bad sectors. I have asked for > RMA and the manufacturer has shipped the new drive. I am expecting > delivery this Monday. > > Now my question is, what would be the best way to migrate the data to > the new driv

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-22 Thread JB
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > Recently one of my hard drives developed bad sectors. I have asked for > RMA and the manufacturer has shipped the new drive. I am expecting > delivery this Monday. > > Now my question is, what would be the best way to migrate the data to > the new driv

Re: Migrating data off a failing drive

2010-08-21 Thread fedora
Hi Suvayu I have made bad experiences with LVM toghether with ext4 and fedora 13. I got hundreds of Jul 17 15:38:05 casablanca kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 136800 in the respective logs. When rebooting I also got hundreds of Jul 17 15:38:22