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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:24:18 +0000
From:      Lewis Thompson <lewiz@fajita.org>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.
Message-ID:  <20040323172418.GA47065@lewiz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org>
References:  <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org> <20040316111325.GB742@adelaide.lemis.com> <20040316172526.GB1236@lewiz.org> <20040318025602.GZ58155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319030334.GA1985@lewiz.org> <20040319222738.GQ21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org>

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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=3Dad3 of=
=3Dad1
> > > bs=3D8192 conv=3Dnoerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on detail=
s you
> > > haven't reported.''  Do these detailed errors help at all?
> >=20
> > A little.  They tell me that the drive is flaky.  I'd expect to see
> > the error messages in /var/log/messages, though.
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> ``One must specify conv=3Dnoerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad
> sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized''

I re-dd'd my disk yesterday using conv=3Dnoerror,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.

--=20
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.  --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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