<div>Jack,</div>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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<div>It's 70 Gb in total. And I guess an external USB drive, large as it may be, will suffer from the same problem.</div>
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<div>I'd like to know why it happens and how can I fix it?</div>
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<div>I guess that if I re-install the system with the HDD inside - it will be OK...</div>
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<div>Your other idea is better for me.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>Amichai<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jack</b> <<a href="mailto:jdangler@terremark.com">jdangler@terremark.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:09 -0400, Amichai Rotman wrote:<br>> Hi!<br>> Please help!<br>><br>> I have a very strange problem with my Feisty box...
<br>><br>> I have a two year old 80Gb HDD that seems to be dying. I want to run<br>> the manufacturer's diag tools on it but it asks me to backup all my<br>> data. So I bought a new drive, same size (both IDE) and installed it.
<br>> I used gParted to set a primary partition of the complete size. I<br>> formated (mkfs.ext3) and got 74Gb usable space (5% for superuser). I<br>> created a mount point and mounted it. the relevant command outputs
<br>> follow...<br>><br>> What do think?<br>><br>> I tried using rsync -av to copy a 1.2Gb directory over and run df -h<br>> right after. I should have had 72.5Gb available, but instead it said<br>> 68Gb...
<br>><br>> df -h:<br>><br>> /dev/sdc1 74G 180M 70G 1% /Backup<br>><br>> sudo du -h /Backup/<br>><br>> 16K /Backup/lost+found<br>> 20K /Backup/<br>><br>><br>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
<br>><br>> Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes<br>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders<br>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>><br>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
<br>> /dev/sdc1 1 9730 78156193+ 83 Linux<br>><br>> I spoke to a friend of mine, and I saw some posts on the list with a<br>> similar problem. It seems that the 7.04 has a bug(?) when adding a new
<br>> HDD to a live system.<br>><br>> A friend of mine had a similar problem with the same HDD (make and<br>> size) and when he inserted it to a Fedora box it worked fine. Note the<br>> difference in sizes...
<br>><br>> Any ideas?<br>><br>> I really need to backup the data ASAP, the source HDD seems to be<br>> dying...<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>><br>[snip]<br><br>Depending upon how much data is there, a tarball and a flash drive come
<br>to mind. Or a tarball and a friend's box (with ftp/scp) would also<br>work. I've seen this in the threads here as well (recently, iirc), so<br>looking through the archive and/or googling/forums , etc should prove
<br>helpful. But my original suggestion stands if you need to back that<br>data up - now - ...<br><br>hth<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
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