Post AhrgAamYItagZ2ZARc by aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org
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(DIR) Post #AhrP5bJJDIxTXAvDt2 by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-13T21:03:43Z
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I am very good at managing computers in a professional setting, and somehow also very bad at it in my own home.
(DIR) Post #AhrPJuUIi3n547t1fM by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-13T21:06:26Z
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This laptop, which is just sitting in the next room and which I could physically walk up to, isn't responding to ssh or RDP. I won't walk in to the other room, because I don't want to. I'm just going to let it churn for a few minutes, go get some pizza, and then ssh in to it again. If this does not resolve my issue... I'll power cycle the damn thing.
(DIR) Post #AhrPNWhr4PjIT1x0tM by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-13T21:07:06Z
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If power cycling it doesn't resolve the problem, I will absolutely install a new operating system and start this shit over from scratch because I don't want to put any more time in to it.
(DIR) Post #AhrQ5BPLcQNT9X6xN2 by SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
2024-05-13T21:14:56Z
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@ajroach42 I blame the geomagnetic storm.
(DIR) Post #AhrSIqOkjEFVxHTUtk by ieure@retro.social
2024-05-13T21:39:52Z
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@ajroach42 Reverse for me, mostly because I have the latitude to choose reasonable things in my personal life, whereas every corporation for the last 10+ years lustily shovels vast revenues into the furnace of AWS, Atlassian, and other ill-fitting, overpriced SaaS companies.
(DIR) Post #AhrTZJF3MABk01Lwi8 by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-13T21:54:01Z
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@ieure I'm usually much better about it myself. This machine is the exception, in that it is my media server and my nemesis.
(DIR) Post #AhreJjonsPDZHtquoK by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-13T23:54:29Z
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(power cycling didn't resolve the problem because the problem is fucking NTFS. So now I have the hard drive connected to a windows machine which hadn't been booted in months, and which only exists to repair NTFS disks. According to chkdsk it will take 250 hours to finish checking and repairing this disk.)
(DIR) Post #AhrePkIR0pxKVWZpdw by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
2024-05-13T23:55:22Z
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@ajroach42 that's a big 10-oof, good buddy
(DIR) Post #AhredJIWBojKpK5H28 by aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org
2024-05-13T23:58:01Z
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@ajroach42 chkdsk will *probably* be faster than that, but `ntfsfix` might get you out of a jam faster? (And if you're certain the data is all fine but it just has the dirty flag set, `ntfsfix -d /dev/blah` will get you set up as fast as you can type.)
(DIR) Post #Ahrf8e0dEbv42VevPU by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-14T00:03:38Z
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@aschmitz The problem is a that I have a folder that contains about 100,000 files because I did a silly thing. And now the folder is corrupt. about 10,000 of these are real files that I actually want to keep. ntfsfix, at least the last time I used it a few months ago, will throw it's hands up and orphan the files in the corrupted folder, which in this case will result in about 2TB of data loss.
(DIR) Post #AhrgAamYItagZ2ZARc by aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org
2024-05-14T00:15:14Z
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@ajroach42 Whoops. Yeah, if you know there's corruption then it's hard to beat the official tools. (Except by "image the whole drive, then try the official tools", but for a 20TB drive that's a long process and maybe runs into free space problems.)
(DIR) Post #Ahs99yTrbZ9QReslmq by FluidEscence@fwoof.space
2024-05-14T05:40:03Z
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@ajroach42 lol, I would solve this particular problem the same way!
(DIR) Post #Aht7WXyMK23e8qk3uK by vt52@ioc.exchange
2024-05-14T16:56:27Z
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@ajroach42 never buy a mechanic's car
(DIR) Post #AhtazWAb065PcTdG4m by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-14T22:26:38Z
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Chkdsk is still running. It's showing 10% complete. These files aren't that critical, I'm tempted to ctrl-break it.
(DIR) Post #AhtbBKAZRZ0XsNFZfE by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
2024-05-14T22:28:41Z
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@ajroach42 it becomes a calculus comparing the time it takes to replace the files with the time and wear on the disk to repair the catalog of the files, and yeah, 240 hours is a lot of chkdsking
(DIR) Post #AhtbZb3sI6tdDQgyfo by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-14T22:32:53Z
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@djsundog what I should really do is copy whatever I can recover to another drive and then reformat this to something journaled.
(DIR) Post #Ahtbbk0bzoJRXpBkYK by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
2024-05-14T22:33:30Z
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@ajroach42 💯
(DIR) Post #Ahti6YQfhMGuKhSCQq by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-14T23:46:19Z
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Alright. I ctrl-break'd it, and then I let ntfsfix do it's thing.It appears I have no data loss, but I'm scanning the drive for missing files now, and spot checking a checksum from every folder.Then I'll back up all these files to another disk and convert this to EXT4. and then I'll get board before I do the other four NTFS disks I need to do, and deal with this all again in a few months.
(DIR) Post #Ahtn2nuGiAgowoKR7Y by ajroach42@retro.social
2024-05-15T00:41:41Z
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When I say that I am bad at managing computers in my personal life, what I mostly mean is that I want IPMI access to my laptops, but I don't have it because that would be wildly insecure.Doing remote access in userland means that it can go wrong. I'm not here for that.