On 01/09/2010 01:20 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
The drive has visa on sdb2, some recovery stuff on sdb1, swap is sdb5, with / and /home as sdb6 and sdb7. I believe all the files are still there and are doing fine, but the partition table seems to be mucked up.
David, the partition table looks fine - have you tried running a SMART selftest on that drive? (smartctl -t short /dev/sda)
/Per
Per, Yep, I've run a smart self test on it. It says it has had errors "In the past" but that it "passes" overall. I'll try and dig up the output from it. Right now it looks like I have been able to get everything back from the drive. I put the bad drive and it's replacement in a dell box with 2 sata connectors (I unplugged the original hd in the dell box), and booted from the gparted-live CD. I have been able to clone the system volume and vista without any issues and I've created an extended partition in the remaining 550G and I'm currently copying the / partition from the bad drive over. (I'll give it a 60/40 chance of being error free). The first time I tried the copy it failed due to multiply claimed inodes. I have run fsck.ext3 -c -y on the bad / partition and the only errors found were in 2 font files. (I ran it twice to confirm) I'll finish copying /, then copy /home, extend /home from its current 208G to whatever remains after copying the / partition over. Should be ~530G. Then finally, I'll copy the mbr to the new drive and see how it goes. Worse case, I'll just wipe / and reinstall. (with all the updated rpms in my local repository, install is just a 20 minute matter instead of a 3 hour ordeal [individual package selection]). In case I do have to reinstall, this would be a great opportunity to try the autoyast install feature. I have read a lot of pages on it, but I am still not clear where in the boot process you provide the xml file to the installer. You got a favorite link that might help?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org