Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:14:23 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@fajita.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error. Message-ID: <20040320004423.GX21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org> References: <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org> <20040316111325.GB742@adelaide.lemis.com> <20040316172526.GB1236@lewiz.org> <20040318025602.GZ58155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319030334.GA1985@lewiz.org> <20040319222738.GQ21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org>
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--6749iDyxihQ87e9v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 0:23:11 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1 >>> bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you >>> haven't reported.'' Do these detailed errors help at all? >> >> A little. They tell me that the drive is flaky. I'd expect to see >> the error messages in /var/log/messages, though. > > Right. I've just written a full-blown reply to this message but on the > very last thing I did some looking into dd. After some searching I > found somebody that said: > > ``One must specify conv=noerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad > sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized'' > > I'm feeling sheepish now. I've only used conv=noerror. This would > probably explain something (i.e. I can read the config from the disk > because it's synched at the beginning). Possibly. It's also possible that the bad sectors contained crucial data; that's what I had expected. > I'm going to re-dd the disk on Monday (I'm away for the weekend). > I'll tell you how I get on then. I still don't understand why you're using dd. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --6749iDyxihQ87e9v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAW5PnIubykFB6QiMRAtR/AJ0XUgIspXJ4uKyqQYlkZgPfc/1JYACghBUe 0L3hhcmORWIOyDwVj+9+aiQ= =S794 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6749iDyxihQ87e9v--
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