German wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think I read that you have one identically sized drive, yes? I am > > not sure where you are sitting with regards to the other suggestions. > > But at the least I would make one good backup as soon as possible. > > And it seems that possibly you have the capability at this time? > > Yes, I do have two identical 2TB drives. So, you are advising to make a > back up. Something like ddrescue if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY ? Again I am not sure of the status of things with you since there have been many good suggestions in this discussion thread. You may be halfway down a different path. But yes if I were having hardware problems I would make a backup as soon as possible. (Actually I already have backups all of the time. Backups are important.) Always use a log file with ddrescue. If I have both of those disks mounted on a second system with its own disks then put the logfile on the host system. That would be on the host system and not either the source or target. ddrescue if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY /var/tmp/rescuelogfile If you had booted a livecd and wanted that logfile to be persistent then mount up a USB storage device and store it there. ddrescue if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY /media/usb1 Where /media/usb1 is an example of a mounted usb storage device. Replace that string with the mount point of the usb device mounted on your host system. I now read that perhaps it wasn't hardware problems. If the disk is okay then the first thing I would do is to fsck it. But if the disk is having hardware problems then I would copy a backup first. Bob
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