[plug] re; bad block on disk

[JonL]

Thanks Chris I'll have a look into that.

Jon

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From: "Chris Hoy Poy" <chris at hoypoy.id.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:19 AM
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] re; bad block on disk

> Hi Jon,
>
> Have you tried a simple liveCD/bootable usb key and then using 
> [cat|dd|netcat|etc] to dump the partition image / drive image?
>
> Something like ddrescure [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue] has 
> brought me luck in the past as well.
>
> //chris
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JonL" <jonl711 at hotmail.com>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 June, 2012 9:38:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] re; bad block on disk
>
> That is exactly what I want to do, however I guess my question would be
> is it possible to copy all the data off of this drive/partition? if I
> can get
> the bad blocked marked and moved and the drive comes back up I would
> move all important files off of it and re-install on a new disk.
>
> Jon
>
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> From: "Leon Wright" <techman83 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:23 AM
> To: <plug at plug.org.au>
> Subject: Re: [plug] re; bad block on disk
>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, JonL <jonl711 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Morning all,
>>>
>>> I have a problem on a drive in my main server and now the server does
>>> not boot up. The drive has a bad block and i was wondering if there
>>> are any
>>> tools I can run to move this block.
>>> What I've done so far:
>>> I've run reiserfsck to check the drive partition, its a reiserfs file
>>> system (reiserfsch -CV /dev/sda2;
>>> I've run the SuSE installation and selected repair system to try to
>>> fix the
>>> drive. I've done all the steps up to step 5 on the following document
>>> (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html#reiserfs_ex);
>>> for some reason it keeps stating that it has a bad starting block.
>>
>> I tend to go with the theory that if a drive is beginning to show
>> errors, it's not worth trying to repair it as it will die properly in
>> the not too distant future. Get a new disk, re-install and move your
>> files across. That would be my advice regardless of platform.
>>
>> Leon
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