hello ariel-
thanks so much for the info. the partition type is apple HFS and the filesystem
is "mac os extended (journaled)"
i do have another firewire 800 drive ready to go so i can just parititon it
smaller and copy the data straight off the current target. can you tell me some
commands to do this or a place to look? i have searched google ...
at this point ddrescue has slowed to a crawl and pulls mostly junk... it should
be done any time now, the drive was 80gb and its at 76-something
thanks again
peter
About to copy an undefined number of Bytes from /dev/disk0s3 to /dev/disk2s12
Starting positions: infile = 0 B, outfile = 0 B
Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
Hard block size: 512 bytes
Max_retries: 0 Split: yes Truncate: no
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0
Current status
rescued: 76029 MB, errsize: 31954 kB, current rate: 6 B/s
ipos: 76061 MB, errors: 491, average rate: 1510 kB/s
opos: 76061 MB
Copying data...
Quoting Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Peter wrote:
>
> > is this going to produce an unusable volume because the target is not the
> > same size as the source? i have not stopped the progress and tried to mount
> > it yet.
>
> If the volume is ext then you'll have no problem. ext stores the actual
> size of the fs in the superblock. (Although if the superblock is messed up
> bad things can happen - but in that case you'll have worse problems. And
> you might be able to use a backup superblock.)
>
> If it's other filesystems, then they might not mount, but the data is not
> useless - it's just at the beginning of the volume that's all.
>
> Just figure out the size of the old volume, and copy that much data from
> the new volume once ddrescue is done. You might even have some success
> _CAREFULLY_ changing the partition table to shrink the partition slightly
> to match. (But that's a risky thing to do.)
>
> Use blockdev to get the size of the old volume.
>
> -Ariel
>
>
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