Re: /dev/hda1 not umounting.

Peter Jones wrote:

Walter Mautner wrote:
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Do not stress the original harddrive until you have recovered your data.
The advice is good, but i managed to fix it with reiserfsck instead.

Good, that means your harddrive isn' already halfways out.

I will bear in mind what youve said for future reference, should com in
handy ;)
I am curious though, how would dd_rescue not stress the hard drive.
Presumably it reads the same data off the disk that I would be reading if
I was trying to use the disk as per-normal? Maybe it does it less so
though, I'm not sure.

It tries to read what's possilbe with a linear scan first, and jumps over
errors first.
Any imaging program basically tries to read "linear" sector by sector.
Copying files or fscking a drive need continuous repositioning drive heads.
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