Re: AW: disk error / failure: need help! (smart failure predicted)

From: mario (mario_at_schmut.com)
Date: 12/14/03

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To: <arie@gerszt.ch>

    Unfortunately things get fuzzy here.
    I usually run single partitions
    and have not had a problem with it not working.
    However, this maybe due to a previous installation
    having done the boot sector.
    I reuse my drives a lot due to frequent setup changes.

    Take a look at this:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
    [snip]
    # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 device
    [/snip]

    Of course, i usually try to give this kinda stuff a test run before
    doing it on a hot system.

    have fun

    > thanks so far!
    >
    > and this also works for the boot secotor where the systems boots of?
    >
    > thanks,
    > arie
    >
    >
    > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
    > Von: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org]Im Auftrag von Mario Theodoridis
    > Gesendet: Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 06:45
    > An: voytovich_slava@land.ru
    > Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; iaccounts@northnetworks.ca
    > Betreff: Re: disk error / failure: need help! (smart failure predicted)
    >
    >
    >> Hi !
    >>
    >> Does it need that the disks have the same geometry?
    >>
    >> Slava
    >>
    >
    > i don't know about dd.
    > As for dump, i've used it locally as well as remotely
    > to back up entire partitions and as long as the target partition,
    > which you need to format before hand, is big enough for the actual data,
    > i've never had problems.
    >
    > For me this usually looks like this:
    > [root@quack ~]#mount /dev/adwhatever /mountpoint
    > [root@quack ~]#cd /mountpoint
    > [root@quack /mountpoint]#dump 0f - / | restore -rf -
    >
    > hope it helps :)
    >

    mario;>

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