Re: Disk recovery

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

Jason V Smith wrote ..
> it's just giving me some SMART alarms to backup my data.

Get your data fast before it gets any worse. 
You should be able to turn off SMART in your BIOS.

For recovery, I'd use dd_rescue, since it will skip bad
blocks, ignore errors, and will let you read the data backwards.

Avoid cpio, since hardware errors (like the SMART kind) will LOCK UP
your system and cpio will retry forever. And cpio is not user-interruptable
in the middle of a kernel read operation (which it will be, when you
want to interrupt it, of course).

Check out this page for some pointers:

http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/FilesystemForensics

Mike/

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