Re: Reading a damaged disk

2012-09-24 Thread Robert Halberg
I'm not sure if it's available for OpenBSD, but there's dd_rescue as well, which I gather substitutes blocks of zeros for any unreadable sectors. That would allow you to create an image file with some holes filled in with zeros. You then would be able to avoid I/O errors by working against that

Re: mount nullfs

2011-04-16 Thread Robert Halberg
Does this mean that the performance of a local NFS mount is actually better than that of mount_nullfs? On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.comwrote: The question is if implementations still sucks as before years

Re: Sed error message on latest ramdisk_CD #164

2010-10-19 Thread Robert Halberg
What about: df -i ? There may be no more inodes available, even though there is still some space left on device, and the same No space left on device message is generally produced in such cases. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: At the last part

Re: computer hangs after varying amount of data is received from network via ssh

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Halberg
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 10/13/10 17:25, Robert wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't attract a of interest... As

computer hangs after varying amount of data is received from network via ssh

2010-10-13 Thread Robert Halberg
I am attempting to copy data from a USB mass storage device formatted with ext2 to an ffs filesystem on a SATA drive. The OpenBSD system containing the target filesystem lacks a USB 2.0 interface, so I am attempting to copy files over the network from a USB 2.0 equipped system running the

Re: computer hangs after varying amount of data is received from network via ssh

2010-10-13 Thread Robert Halberg
. 2010 ` 19:24, Robert Halberg robert.halb...@gmail.com a icrit : I am attempting to copy data from a USB mass storage device formatted with ext2 to an ffs filesystem on a SATA drive. The OpenBSD system containing the target filesystem lacks a USB 2.0 interface, so I am attempting to copy files