On 05/08/2015 at 02:16 PM, German wrote:
On Fri, 08 May 2015 13:40:01 -0400 The Wanderer
<wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
On 05/08/2015 at 01:20 PM, German wrote:
Thanks, but some clarification is needed. Now I have two drives,
failed and a spare. Both are 2TB in size. Failed drive probably
has 1.6 TB data I'd like to recover. It has only one partition I
suppose.
That's bad.
If the drive has only one partition, it probably has a single
filesystem taking up all of its space.
When you create a ddrescue image from that partition, the new
image will take up _at least as much_ space as the original
filesystem. That's not the 1.6TB of "used" space; it's the full
2TB of "total" space. (Plus however much space is taken up by
the "index" file used by ddrescue while doing its work.)
That means that if your two 2TB drives are actually the same
size, the "good" one will not have enough space to store the
image you need to rescue from the "bad" one.
Thanks Wanderer. So, I have no chances with two drives the same
capacity? Would you advise to wait when I can get more capacity
drive and only then to proceed as to save some head ache?
Yes, that's what I'd do in your situation. A 2.5TB drive should be
more than enough; that would also let you store the
sdb_failed.ddrescuelog file on the same drive, if you need to, so
you don't have to worry about finding space for it elsewhere.
Once again, thanks for such a complete instructions.
I wouldn't call the directions I gave "complete"; there's a lot of
details you'll still have to work out on your own, because they
will depend on the exact details of your failure and the recovery
process. Still, they should at least provide you a good starting
point.
Again, I would recommend that you install (and read the
documentation for) myrescue, and consider using that instead of
ddrescue. I've used both (as well as dd_rescue), but if memory
serves I've had better results with myrescue.