Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-04 22:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:47:38PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: A few posts after yours Hendrik suggested checking the lost and found directory and in it I found 57 folders and 15798 other items totaling 16.6 GB. They are mostly edits from audacity

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:25:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Delete the contents all you want, but keep the lost and found directory. If you delete lost+found by accident, you can recreate it with mklost+found(8). On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > Reallocation,

Re: [DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:53:54PM -0700, tom wrote: > How many Gemini and Kristall (or any other Gemini client of your > choosing) https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ As it turns out, we were talking about that at the last meeting, and there's probably interest in it. -- Mason Loring Bliss

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 09:19:42PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Status command failed: scsi error medium or hardware error (serious) > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > Warning: This result is based on an Attribute

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:00:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:03:55PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > This particular drive has no data that is not backed up elsewhere so I am > > comfortable experimenting with it a bit as a learning experience. OTOH, > >

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:47:38PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > A few posts after yours Hendrik suggested checking the lost and found > directory and in it I found 57 folders and 15798 other items totaling 16.6 > GB. They are mostly edits from audacity (.au) and avidemux (in C). Also some

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 11:19 AM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-04 20:46, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/5/20 1:34 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: [...] I have no idea how reliable the

Re: [DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-04 Thread tom
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 00:51:01 -0400 Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Hi all! We're looking for opinions about wiki software. First choice > at the moment is TWiki but we want more options and more perspective > to get us to the best possible decision. > > Goals, not in a particular order: > > *

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-04 20:46, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/5/20 1:34 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: [...] I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical surgery.

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/5/20 1:34 AM, Andreas Messer wrote: Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: [...] I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical surgery. Can it be written to or files deleted?

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-04 19:24, spiralofhope wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0500 goli...@devuan.org wrote: ...2 new 500 GB WD Black drives... You have good taste. LOL! It's a learning process if you're paying attention. Note that the funky drive I'm currently playing with is a 1 TB WD Caviar

Re: [DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-04 Thread pekman
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 00:51:01 -0400 Mason Loring Bliss wrote: Dokuwiki and PMWiki is very best wiki engine > Hi all! We're looking for opinions about wiki software. First choice > at the moment is TWiki but we want more options and more perspective > to get us to the best possible decision. > >

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread spiralofhope
On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0500 goli...@devuan.org wrote: > ...2 new 500 GB WD Black drives... You have good taste. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:03:55PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > This particular drive has no data that is not backed up elsewhere so I am > comfortable experimenting with it a bit as a learning experience. OTOH, > trashing the remaining life it has for no reason wouldn't make sense. You're

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-04 11:34, Andreas Messer wrote: Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: [...] I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical surgery. Can it be written to or files deleted?

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-04 05:38, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/4/20 3:50 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: Well . . . I decided to run an fsck on the misbehaving harddrive. It started off by identifying the errors and rewriting them and then went through Free block counts, Inode bitmap differences and Free inodes

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread (some off-list). I > > just wanted to drop a short note updating you that the dock arrived > > earlier today but I haven't

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:34:29 +0200 Andreas Messer wrote: > Hi golinux, > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > [...] > > I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical > > surgery. Can it

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > [...] > I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical > surgery. Can it be written to or files deleted? Should I even try? > [...] I wouldn't

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Tito via Dng
Il 04/09/20 08:50, goli...@devuan.org ha scritto: > On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >> Thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread (some off-list). I >> just wanted to drop a short note updating you that the dock arrived >> earlier today but I haven't yet had a chance to

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Simon Walter
On 9/4/20 3:50 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: Well . . . I decided to run an fsck on the misbehaving harddrive. It started off by identifying the errors and rewriting them and then went through Free block counts, Inode bitmap differences and Free inodes and directory count. Some snippets of the

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread golinux
On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: Thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread (some off-list). I just wanted to drop a short note updating you that the dock arrived earlier today but I haven't yet had a chance to open the box. I am not an impulsive person. I tend to measure