On 20 Sep 2009, at 01:01, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
<SNIP>
seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to
keep - and
then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing
block errors
it will only become worse. Don't worry about 'repairing' the file
system as
long as there is hardware damage. Try to get off the disk as much
as possible -
and then scrap it.
I suspect you're right. It's just another $100 to go buy a new one....
Anyway, I'll see what I can set up to save the files that are still
there.
Although he seems to be demonstrating in this thread an inability to
snip long sections of quoted text, leaving the reader with many lines
of irrelevance to scroll through, I agree with Volker.
If the drive fails you're going to be spending $100, anyway. If it
fails without having been replaced & your data pulled off it then you
could find yourself floating down Effluent River and unable to start
your outboard.
I think this drive is quite likely to fail catastrophically, from my
experience of having seen similar errors in the past. I really
wouldn't trust this drive with important data right now. If you get
your data off it and replace it in it's current capacity, there's
nothing stopping you using it as a secondary drive in the future; I
wouldn't trust it with important data right now, but if it's still
chugging away in 6 months time then you can probably begin to have
faith in it. Once you've gotten your data off the drive it wouldn't do
any harm to format it nice with a clean filesystem; and writing a
bunch of big unimportant files on the drive (e.g. `dd if=/dev/zero of=/
mnt/sda1/foo`) might allow it to map away a bunch of bad sectors.
But right now you should probably act like the drive is definitely
hosed. I don't think you should be saying "oh, this might cost me
$100, I hope it doesn't" - you should be saying "s#!t d...@mn! I had to
buy a new hard-drive. But at least my data's ok".
But maybe data isn't as important to you as it is to me. Relying on
this drive for the backups of your Windows machines right now would be
a mockery; around here sod's law would conspire for me to need one of
those backups, were I to continue using a drive showing errors like
this. I write as a guy you just bought yet another 500gb drive on
Friday; I would too have preferred not to spend that money, but
experience shows that frugality can sometimes be a mistake.
Stroller.
