[Discuss] Recovering a corrupted usb hard drive with XFS

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

One thing you can do is to set up a new partition table. Doing that does
not erase.
Formatting does overwrite data. But, I would practice with a thumb driver.

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 7:22?PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 5/15/24 15:44, John Abreau wrote:
> > my other disks were close
> > to full when I purchased the 18TB disk. To back it up, I'd need to
> purchase
> > yet another disk
>
> Indeed.
>
> I once heard as a metaphor* that a circus needs at least two elephants,
> because if one dies, it will require the second elephant haul away the
> first one. You have only one elephant.
>
>
> I'm so old that 18TB seems big to me. That's so much data that backing
> it up by ANY means is very non-trivial. Even if the disk could spit data
> at the maximum "super speed" of USB 3.0, isn't that still something like
> 10-hours just to fit so much data through the wire?
>
>
> -kb, the Kent who points out that circuses seem to be giving up on
> elephants.
>
>
> * It wasn't about disks when I first heard it, it was used to illustrate
> a truth of nuclear power plants. They also come in large increments. And
> are (almost?) always built in sets of two, or more.
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