Re: XFS - hard drive dying

[evilninja <evilninja@xxxxxxx>]

A JM schrieb:
> So the dd_rhelp command line for the entire drive to recover to
> another drive would read like? (dd_rhelp /dev/VGforMyth/video
> /dev/hdc/video)

i don't know much about LVM but when /dev/VGforMyth/video is your bad
drive, /dev/hdc/video should be the good drive of the *same* size:

% dd_rescue /dev/VGforMyth/video /dev/hdc/video

i guess the "outfile" could be a FILE too:

% dd_rescue /dev/VGforMyth/video /tmp/VGforMyth.img

later on you could loopmount VGforMyth.img or use losetup to check the
filesystem.

> Does this need to be done in "single user" mode? 

not necessarily, but for unmounting /dev/VGforMyth/video all applications
that have a lock on the data must be shutdown. i'd recommend "single user"
mode.

Christian.

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