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Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working
Date 2025-01-26 03:29 +0100
Message-ID <b9jg6lxjco.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
References <vn30ds$2sg61$1@dont-email.me> <vn31hd$2snf7$1@dont-email.me> <vn45ks$2pd93$1@paganini.bofh.team>

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

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On 2025-01-26 03:06, Jim wrote:
> On 25/01/2025 15:55, Alan K. wrote:
>> On 1/25/25 10:36 AM, Paul wrote:

...

>> More reason to keep a spare Win7 machine /disk around huh.
>>
> 
> What is Linux version of disk-check? In windows it takes hours as stated
> above but what about Ubuntu?? What command to use to check this?
> 

fsck. You also have badblocks.

> I have a 2 TB disk that is slow and showing signs of wear & tear so I
> tried to clone it on a new SSD 1TB disk. Acronis states that it is
> possible to clone on to a smaller disk as long as the actual data is not
> more than the size of the target disk. The source has about 350GB of
> data (out of 2TB disk size) but this can't be cloned because the disk
> has bad clusters according to Acronis. So how do I correct this in Linux
> ubuntu?

Write to the bad sectors to force them to remap.

> x-posted to ubuntu as well just in case they can respond quickly.

Better start a new thread in any of the linux groups, the Windows folks 
will not be very happy.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 10:36 -0500
  Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-25 10:55 -0500
    Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 11:20 -0500
    Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working Jim <noreply@ghyhgtgfrde.com> - 2025-01-26 02:06 +0000
      Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 03:29 +0100
      Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 23:14 -0500
  Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 03:31 +0100
    Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 22:06 -0500
      Re: New reason for Disk Management ("Shrink") not working "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 13:54 +0100

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