Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

[Lewis Thompson]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:23:11AM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > On Friday, 19 March 2004 at  3:03:34 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> > > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1
> > > bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you
> > > haven't reported.''  Do these detailed errors help at all?
> > 
> > A little.  They tell me that the drive is flaky.  I'd expect to see
> > the error messages in /var/log/messages, though.
> 
> Right.  I've just written a full-blown reply to this message but on the
> very last thing I did some looking into dd.  After some searching I
> found somebody that said:
> 
> ``One must specify conv=noerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad
> sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized''

I re-dd'd my disk yesterday using conv=noerror,sync and everything seems
to work as planned.

  Vinum starts straight away and I have not managed to re-create the
null fqg message.  If I come across any problems I'll post them here.

  Thanks very much,

-lewiz.

-- 
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