2006/12/25
Today I became suspicious of everything (part 3)
This is part of the hard disk recovery documentation.
Part 3.
Today I became suspicious of (the ext2ifs driver, the mkfs command, the USB enclosure, and basically) everything
On Christmas morning Santa Claus had not granted my wish: ddrescue was still running, but the image file had not been timestamped any more recently than when I left it, and the damaged drive had spun down by itself. dmesg revealed a syslog message “too many IO errors” or something like that, which had caused Linux to give up on reading from the damaged drive. I was very frustrated because, well let’s see, I had expected the disk imaging to make good progress, but instead… I must suffer a reboot and the induced indefinite re-churning of the drive, with even more data loss! What.
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