catastrophic failure

[Michael Zacherl]

On 08.11.2007 14:56 Uhr, Tony Scharf wrote:
> About a week ago, I dropped the USB hard drive that I use to backup my
> main audio system down a flight of stairs.  It was toasted.
> 
> I dont like *not* having a recent backup so yesterday I bought a new
> one.  I booted into knoppix to format it ext3 and make a disk image of
> the main system drive and to do an rsync of the data drive.
> 
> just a tip: when using fdisk, the difference between sda1 and sdb1 is
> pretty significant.  I have no idea why, but with my old drive, it
> always showed up as sda1, but for some reason that was different this
> time.  I partitiond and then proceeded to format my entire data drive.
>   And I have no backup I can locate (I may have some DVD backups in a
> box somewhere that are at least 2 years old).
> 
> So...its gone.  everything.  everything Id been working on. the
> remixes I was working on..some vocal tracks...recorded noodles of the
> cwejman I had gathered and about 20 gb of samples I was working on to
> add to the ampfea sample library.
> 
> I dont even really know how to react at this point.  I feel like i
> have been hit by a train.

oh my dear!!

USB-devices are not bound to a specific device file (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, 
etc.) So they can change. 4 times it's the same device name, the 5th 
time a different one ... depeding what else happens on the USB bus.
To avoid such a desaster there are some methods, depending on the 
distribution you use.
udev is the thing you may want, but I didn't try myself so far.
In most distributions (e.g. ubuntu) the label of a fat32 partition is 
reocognised and remounted in the very some mount point.
But you had an ext3.

But well ... now, afterwards it's too late ...

did you do a mkfs?


   You've my sympathy - Michael.


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