[ubuntu-florida] Oh, F*CK

[Dan Trevino]

On 9/19/07, Neo-Taoist Techno-Pagan <polklug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Brett Schubert wrote:
> > One of the HD's on the BBS failed and I lost some files, its back but
> > it will take me some time to recover the files.
> >
>
> Do you mean FSCK??  ;-)
>
> Sorry to hear about the HDD issue. Hopefully you had them in a RAID
> array or something similar. I have found that it is possible to get data
> off a dying HDD if you put it in a freezer for about 10 minutes (in a
> ziploc bag first) and then do a dd to a known good drive.
>
> dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx
>
> [if = dying HDD] [of = good drive]
>
> That should copy all the data and then you can do an fsck on that drive
> to sort out any file system issues.
>
> What caused it to fail? Is the system getting proper airflow?
> Jon
>
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