Am 06.07.2012 17:01, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > Am 06.07.2012 16:11, schrieb Jim: >> On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck >>> you should not play around before >>> knowing what problem the drive has >>> >>> if it is a physical problem google for "ddrescue" >>> >>>> There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 >>> what about BACKUPS? >>> >>> ff your data is important backups exists >>> if your data is not important it does not matter >>> >>> why do people still need to learn it the hard way? >>> >> I run dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb1 to copy, supposely a 26gb image to sdb1 but i do not see a image on sdb1 . >> >> Confused ??? > > no, just stupid because you do not read manuals nor know anything about > basic-commands and that is why you destroyed /dev/sdb1 if there were > data by overwrite the whole partition > > /dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sd1 > > if you want a image you have to use "dd if=/deV7sda1 of=/path/filename.image" well, i guess the reason why this happened was a combination of plain stupid advise below without explain what it does in a real dangerous way and blindly following any advise without trying to understand what are you doing hopefully lesson learned -> BOTH of you! this is why i said "google for ddrescue" and NOT provide any HIGH DANGEROUS command line -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: sda2 is corrupted Datum: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:15:14 +0200 Von: Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx> Antwort an: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organisation: private site An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: > There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition, e.g. "dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk"
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