From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 24 20:40:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E851065695 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B445E8FC17 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-1-225.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.1.225]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A905B1DB55; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n7OKe3um001922; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:40:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:40:03 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Tim Judd Message-Id: <20090824224003.0b5ac2df.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <1338880b0908241129p75b6845cg26d21804e118364@mail.gmail.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kelly Martin , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:40:06 -0000 On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:13:22 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > If I were you, get a copy of spinrite (from grc.com) and always keep > it handy. It can be risky on a drive already failing. Here's what > I'd do.... > > Buy spinrite, no matter what. Is it really such a good tool? From my own problems, I researched that common recovery tools are "R-Studio" and "UFS Explorer". Both do not natively run on BSD, but the first one offers a bootable CD. Without buying, you can run the diagnostics mode fullwise. For recovery, you need to buy the program. The "Spinrite" web page reads as follows: The industry's #1 hard drive data recovery software is NOW COMPATIBLE with NTFS, FAT, Linux, and ALL OTHER file systems! What? Linux and other file systems? Is this just marketing, in order to look good to the not very educated ones? Or do they not know what they're talking about? In fact, I will keep an eye on this program. Maybe it can help me get my data back (inode defect of $HOME entry). I'm reading their web page some more right now. > slave the bad drive, read-only mount.. even if the FS is dirty, > read-only.. no fsck. You can at least do one fsck run without any modification options, like a "read only file system check". This of course can - like any read operation on the disk - be risky if the disk is fast degrading, simply by using it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...