Hi John, On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:58 PM, John Aldrich <jmaldr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: >> >> If you want to salvage your data, I would recommend ddrescue. It >> worked wonderfully for me. >> > Thanks. It's not that bad. Yet. I just know that SMARTD is apparently > telling me that the drive is failing. I don't have a replacement yet, but > hopefully I'll have one in the next day or so. Then I have to figure out how > to get the data to the new drive and make it the boot drive (my boot drive > is a small PATA drive and it's the one that is failing!)
I don't mean to insist, but I had a similar problem and I was able to replicate the old drive along with the partition table and LVM onto the replacement drive using ddrescue. The procedure is documented in this post. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/377186/focus=377478> Just thought this might be an appropriate (and simple) way to tackle your situation. GL -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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/Mailing_list_guidelines
