Mount Problem - Please Help! My Drive is About To Die!

[Amichai Rotman]

Jack,

Thanks.

It's 70 Gb in total. And I guess an external USB drive, large as it may be,
will suffer from the same problem.

I'd like to know why it happens and how can I fix it?

I guess that if I re-install the system with the HDD inside - it will be
OK...

Your other idea is better for me.

Thanks!

Amichai


On 8/1/07, jack <jdangler at terremark.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:09 -0400, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Please help!
> >
> > I have a very strange problem with my Feisty box...
> >
> > I have a two year old 80Gb HDD that seems to be dying. I want to run
> > the manufacturer's diag tools on it but it asks me to backup all my
> > data. So I bought a new drive, same size (both IDE) and installed it.
> > I used gParted to set a primary partition of the complete size. I
> > formated (mkfs.ext3) and got 74Gb usable space (5% for superuser). I
> > created a mount point and mounted it. the relevant command outputs
> > follow...
> >
> > What do think?
> >
> > I tried using rsync -av to copy a 1.2Gb directory over and run df -h
> > right after. I should have had 72.5Gb available, but instead it said
> > 68Gb...
> >
> > df -h:
> >
> > /dev/sdc1              74G  180M   70G   1% /Backup
> >
> > sudo du -h /Backup/
> >
> > 16K     /Backup/lost+found
> > 20K     /Backup/
> >
> >
> > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdc1               1        9730    78156193+  83  Linux
> >
> > I spoke to a friend of mine, and I saw some posts on the list with a
> > similar problem. It seems that the 7.04 has a bug(?) when adding a new
> > HDD to a live system.
> >
> > A friend of mine had a similar problem with the same HDD (make and
> > size) and when he inserted it to a Fedora box it worked fine. Note the
> > difference in sizes...
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > I really need to backup the data ASAP, the source HDD seems to be
> > dying...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> [snip]
>
> Depending upon how much data is there, a tarball and a flash drive come
> to mind.  Or a tarball and a friend's box (with ftp/scp) would also
> work.  I've seen this in the threads here as well (recently, iirc), so
> looking through the archive and/or googling/forums , etc should prove
> helpful.  But my original suggestion stands if you need to back that
> data up - now -  ...
>
> hth
>
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