Re: Recovering from bad disk ...

On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> How ironic, with regards to all this discussion, that the original disk now verifies OK.  Of course, I don't know what that means with regards to the previous errors (I didn't run a Repair again after the last problematic output it gave).
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> I am moving the data to a new disk.  In fact, I have used DU to restore from the problematic partition to a partition on a new larger disk, and CCC to rsync copy from the problematic partition to another partition on the new disk.  Not 100% sure which one to use?

Either will work. Both will have different folder creation/modification date issues compared to the original.

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> It would be nice to be able to compare these partitions (either both new ones or either new one and the old problematic one) and get some sort of summary of differences (specifically with regards to data differences, not storage mechanism differences).

I've used diff -qr folder1 folder2

man diff

For anything particularly important you can use md5 and get a checksum for comparison.


Chris Murphy