Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-09-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:40:55 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Camaleón wrote: http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Prestige-Portable-SuperSpeed-35194/dp/ B004NIDHXC That's exactly the kind of device I would never ever buy O:-) Do you have a make and model of hard drive that you would

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:50:09PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: developing bad blocks. They are usually at room temperature (no air conditioning), partitioned via cfdisk + mke2fs. I think room temperature is a vague term considering the temperature range which occurs in each country.

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:35:42 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 on it and it found 757 badblocks. The

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 on it and it found 757 badblocks. The partition itself is 100 GB and only 18 GB of it is filled. Now my question is how to

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:15 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: One of the partitions on my hard drive has badblocks. I did a $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 on it and it found 757 badblocks. The partition itself is 100 GB and only 18 GB of it is filled. Now my

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 30 August 2012 19:35:42 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: This one is very slim and does not even have an external case.  http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Prestige-Portable- SuperSpeed-35194/dp/B004NIDHXC Yes, it has got a case. The case is black metal. quote from Amazon site referenced

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 8/30/12, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I have several external drives from iOmega that are a few years old. But the drives inside the enclosure are Western Digital.

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-08-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Go Linux wrote: --- On Thu, 8/30/12, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I guess iOmega drives are not very stable. I have several external drives from iOmega that are a few years old. But the drives inside the enclosure are