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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is an external drive, i was not allowed to do so. Is there anyway for me to inspect and fix this drive? I am on fedora ublue-main. The HDD is a 1TB seagate drive.

Edit : I am a linux noob so some hand holding will be appreciated. Also i am looking to use this drive only for low priority media files which i dont mind losing so please help even though it is not the greatest idea to use a failing drive

Edit 2 : It seems my post is not clear of what i am doing. I dont want to recover data from the drive. I want to try to use more of the drive for storing data

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[-] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

What error do you get in the system log when the transfer fails?

[-] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

How do i search for the relevant log output??

[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

If you’re on systemd the command journalctl will barf up everything. Journalctl |grep “/dev/your_device” | more will look in that mess for any line with your device in it and send it to the more text parser so you can scroll around in it and see stuff. q to get out.

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