Anthony Roy wrote: >Hi Dale, > > > >>Google found this: >>http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208&sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 >> >> > >Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this >gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition >of at least the same size as the damaged one to copy the blocks over >to. Unfortunately, I haven't got another *drive* that's as big as that >partition... > >Looks like an expensive deal for a single bad block! I'll be getting a >replacement big drive to replace the damaged one, and a large >external drive to use for backups. Ironic really, as the server was >supposed to be my backup solution - it has my subversion repository on >it, and an rsync module for backup. Unfortunatly, I'd started to use >it as a webserver etc... > >Oh well, first disk corruption in 10 years - got to learn the hard way >sometime... > >-- >Ant... > > >
I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Dale :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
