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Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

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On 02/10/17 23:39, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive?
>> I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes:
>> On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote:
>>> Sometimes you get lucky and the tool is a live CD:
>> www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
> I didn't feel like burning a CD and it has been a long time since I had
> a box with a 3.5" floppy (although i do have one or two drives in a box
> somewhere and quite a few of the folppies, themselves, as well)

3.5" floppy?  The link above is for a live CD.


>  so I just used dd to write zeros to the disk. It took a while, but it 
 > did the job.

For a HDD, the effect should be the same.


> I partitioned the new disk with 3 physical partitions of 2GB each for
> root/boot partitions.  ...
> The 4th partition was set up for LVM and was set as a Physical Volume
> (PV) to be added to the volume group along with my old drive.

The problem with putting everything on one big disk is that it becomes 
impractical to clone the system image.  I'm still climbing the disk 
imaging learning curve, but it's a useful technique that has saved me 
countless hours.


> In the end, I picked yet another method for moving to the new disk. ...

Congratulations on your success battling through it all, especially LVM.


David

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HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 08:40 +0100
  Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-08 19:00 +0100
  Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 00:10 +0100
    Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 00:40 +0100
      Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 01:00 +0100
        Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-09 02:40 +0100
          Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-11 08:40 +0100
            Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-11 23:30 +0100
      Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-09 03:00 +0100
    Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-09 14:20 +0100
      Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 18:10 +0100
        Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-09 18:20 +0100
          Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 18:50 +0100

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