-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-02-12 00:19, Felix Miata wrote:
I seem to have a failing STB HD, a "refurb" Samsung HD155UI relabeled as Seagate ST1500DL004 Barracuda Green, bought 11 months ago. Log from latest rsync retry:
You can query the on disk SMART data with "smartctl -a /dev/devname". Then you could run the short test (not the long one) and again read the data. That would say more about the health of the disk.
Anyone here familiar with ddrescue know what I should expect of it? Suggestions?
Instead of ddrescue, I find better to run "dd_rhelp" (it is a script). Read "/usr/share/doc/packages/dd_rhelp/README" for details. Then the "example.txt" file. The syntax is very simple: minas-tirith:~ # dd_rhelp Need 2 arguments... usage: dd_rhelp {filename|device} {output-file} [{info}] or dd_rhelp --help or dd_rhelp --version minas-tirith:~ # The advantage on ddrescue is that when there is an unreadable section on the disk, ddrescue will take ages, and maybe fail to clone god areas that are behind that bad area. dd_rhelp will copy everything that is readable, and then slowly read the rest, for as long as you leave it running. And the target image will have the correct size and location, no gaps. It is also abortable, it will restart skipping already copied areas. Alternatively, you could use gnu ddrescue, which integrates both programs. The syntax is quite different, so read the manual first (I don't have it on memory). - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlL6ueUACgkQja8UbcUWM1z44AD+OPSs0xU8K4R2vCgzxtvgXgl/ K0mh/ivwRGz0d70RCzkA+wZSjfXKK+Bgk7tvkYD4nZamtI0bFyE+z1Z54qKI/2+D =Yqn/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org