[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Mike Perkins]

On 15/02/2025 20:22, Barry Martin wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen!
>
>> My policy for drives with pending sectors is to replace them.  I copy
>> all the data to the new drive, which can be a bit problematical as any
>> pending sectors may not be readable.  Then I do a full write format on
>> the old drive and if it is clean after that...
>
> Thanks for your insight!  So it sounds like my drive isn't "deathly sick", just
> has a "cold" and needs a little "chicken soup" (formatting).  At this point I'll
> replace the drive (new one ordered) and copy things over.  Any preferences on
> the copy function? I was originally thinking dd, though now with the bad
> sectors....   cp and rsync have their positives also.
>
Unless you make the new partitions /exactly/ the same size as the old ones dd is
going to do bad things. As well as that, your new drive might end up with the
same UUID identifiers as the old ones and that would guarantee strange things
happening. fstab now uses UUIDs to identify drives.

Stick to rsync. It's much easier and safer.

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Mike Perkins