Re: Re : Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-17 Thread Jan Stary
cp: /mnt/oldhome/xxx/Virtualisation/QEmu/FreeBSD/doc/doc.gd: Bad file descriptor Why are you usign cp? Why don't you dump | restore?

Re : Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-16 Thread Mik J
On Tue, 15 May 2012 17:33:02 +0100 (BST) Mik J wrote: to recover the rest of my files (50% left) while the disk doesn't complain Hello, I wanted to give a feedback. I have copied all my directories except one that was generating the errors that I wrote in my first mail. The directory

Re : Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-15 Thread Mik J
- Mail original - De : Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:19, Jan Stary wrote: On May 14 08:11:43, Mik J wrote: My first question is that I don't understand the term fsbn. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=openbsd+fsbn The results for that aren't particularly helpful

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 15 May 2012 17:33:02 +0100 (BST) Mik J wrote: to recover the rest of my files (50% left) while the disk doesn't complain If your half way there then fair enough, but. ddrescue or magicrescue? do forensic copying and create a log so that it can carry on where it left off. It Tolerates

Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Mik J
Hello, After my new OpenBSD installation, I'm trying to copy data from my backup disk and I have these errors. wd0f: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 1671616960 of 1671616896-1671617023) It happens with different files that belong to different directories and it's always the number fsbn

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Janne Johansson
2012/5/14 Mik J mikyde...@yahoo.fr: After my new OpenBSD installation, I'm trying to copy data from my backup disk and I have these errors. wd0f: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 1671616960 of 1671616896-1671617023) I have in previous messages that some sectors should be dead on my hard

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Jan Stary
On May 14 08:11:43, Mik J wrote: Hello, After my new OpenBSD installation, I'm trying to copy data from my backup disk and I have these errors. [Here is where your exact command should be. Also, you should include a dmesg with hardware issues.] wd0f: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Jan Stary
(Oh, and throw the disk away after you get what you can from it.)

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph Ellis
On 05/14/12 03:11, Mik J wrote: Hello, After my new OpenBSD installation, I'm trying to copy data from my backup disk and I have these errors. wd0f: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 1671616960 of 1671616896-1671617023) It happens with different files that belong to different directories

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 07:13:35 -0400 Ralph Ellis wrote: If the information has commercial value, you may want to use it. Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial sectors automatically too ;-) Free but harder to use tools are ddrescue, recovers as much of damaged

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [SpinRite] Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial sectors automatically too ;-) I really wonder how it's going to do that. mhdd comes with sysresccd and can make a drive ignore bad sectors independent from the

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Zakelj
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.dewrote: Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [SpinRite] Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial sectors automatically too ;-) I really wonder how it's going to do that. It reads the

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:48 + (UTC) Christian Weisgerber wrote: mhdd comes with sysresccd and can make a drive ignore bad sectors independent from the filesystem. Be careful to get the right sectors though as it will destroy the data in them. Well, yes, to get rid of a persistent

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Chris Zakelj: [SpinRite] Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial sectors automatically too ;-) I really wonder how it's going to do that. It reads the questionable sector(s) a couple hundred times with the drive's ECC logic turned off, Interesting.

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Zakelj
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.dewrote: Chris Zakelj: [SpinRite] Takes for ever though but is easy to use and may recover partial sectors automatically too ;-) I really wonder how it's going to do that. It reads the questionable

Re: Error while copying data from another disk

2012-05-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:19, Jan Stary wrote: On May 14 08:11:43, Mik J wrote: My first question is that I don't understand the term fsbn. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=openbsd+fsbn The results for that aren't particularly helpful in explaining the term. file system block number.