-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-06-28 at 19:32 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:02:19 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
Got a drive that's starting to show its age (sadly, at only about 2 years old!). It's a Maxtor OneTouch drive, which actually contains 2 500 GB drives and presents via USB as a single storage device.
Two follow-up questions:
1. Is there any way with reiserfs to find out which files are affected by the results of a badblocks test? ie, given a list of bad blocks, can I find out the filenames of any files that are going to be unreadable as a result?
Maybe, but I don't know it. An alternative is to read every file till it fails, then delete and replace the file.
That'd give me an idea of what I need to find backup copies of. Most of the data is replaceable, just a pain to have to do that.
2. Suggestion was made that I could maybe re-zero the drive to revive things. Could I just zero those blocks in the same way, and if so, how?
Better copy everything somewhere else, and then overwrite the entire drive, and reformat it. The overwriting on normal disks triggers the bad sector remapping, but I don't know about usb enclosures. I suppose it happens, the only thing is that you can't interrogate the chipset about it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIZ2JftTMYHG2NR9URAhkuAJ9qwDcZQA4zaIp7sKm7NI2cwWAYpwCcCF7h SN08JN7i/tAsnCzXEPgHEoU= =fKHj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org