[Wlug] interesting backups problem

[Eric Stein]

It is mostly full.  It's not possible to shrink it enough to make a 
difference.  Interesting idea, though.

I'm borrowing a 200GB drive from a friend so I can use it as scratch 
space, but the IDE to USB adapter is producing some interesting results 
in /var/log/messages...

Feb 21 22:23:30 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device 
using ehci_hcd and address 6
Feb 21 22:23:31 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 
1 choice
Feb 21 22:23:31 glamdring kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Feb 21 22:23:41 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6
Feb 21 22:23:41 glamdring kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - 
not ready after error recovery

Does anyone know what this means?  Is the drive dead?

Eric

Aaron Haviland wrote:
> Eric Stein wrote, on Feb 18, 2007 at 20:18 EST:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got an interesting issue with disk usage.  I have a hard disk image 
>> (from dd) stored on a server, and it needs to be compressed it to make 
>> room for other data.  The image is 160 GB, but I only have 30 GB of free 
>> space to work with; the data isn't compressible enough to fit in 30 GB 
>> in the meantime.  I don't need the image right now and having only a 
>> compressed copy is perfectly fine.  How can I compress the image while 
>> simultaneously deleting the old data?  I can think of a way to do it 
>> using perl, dd, and some other tools, but I'd much prefer to do it the 
>> "right" way if there is one.
>>     
>
> Is the image completely full or is there free space within the image?
> i.e., might you be able to resize it smaller with ext2resize or
> somesuch?
>
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