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Hi
I'm trying to backup my external fat32 disk onto a internal disk (ext2) on my linux device..
The command I'm using is
rsync -va /media/extern/dir /media/data1/dir
then some bits and pieces get copied but my screen fills with the repeating message :
Ext2-fs error(device sdb1): ext2_valid_block_bitmap:invalid block bitmap_block_group= xxxx, block xxxxxxxxxx
xxxx being each line a new sequential number
I stop the operation with crtl - c after some time because I don't trust the copy it is making
in the rsync command i use -va ... v because I want to see what is going on and a because I want dir subdirs and files to be fully copied..
any thoughts are welcome
thanks
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Well, your internal disk seems busted. Whip out your rescue live cd of choice and look what smartctl, e2fsck and dmesg say about the drive. But only after mounting it read-only and attempting one last full backup. Sometimes you are lucky and reading from a drive still works while writing doesn't.
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the disk seem fine ... it is empty, I have reformatted them with partitionmagic this time to an ext3 format.
now when I write to them with rsync I still get that same error in verbose but the copying happens...
It's a new internal disk.. should I format it diffrently ?
thanks
Last edited by lesage (2008-09-04 13:25:58)
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1) e2fsck -vccf /dev/yourdiskandpartition (takes ages)
2) pacman -S smartmontools; smartctl -s on /dev/yourdisk; smartctl -t long /dev/yourdisk; (wait); smartctl -l selftest /dev/yourdisk
If there's really nothing wrong with the disk after that... well, then I'm out of ideas. Google time. Or try a different filesystem (reiser/jfs).
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