Hi. I ran Slack 10.2 on a seagate SATA.
I installed a new SATA drive in order to install the 11.
Then i moved via konqueror data from old /home to new one.
I checked the size of folders, and number of files inside too using the property menu with right click. All went fine.

BUT i saw some of my photos corrupted, and some zipped files won't open anymore.

I'm currently rebuilding the old reiserfs home in order to undelete my data.
I use reiserfs only and my SATA controller is SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid].

Can someone have clues about it? I transferred files with 2.4.33.3.
Can i operate this transfer with some hash/md5 checking in order to ensure data isn't corrupted anymore? Maybe rsync can do it?

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Oh, by the way, is there a tool to check if my new drive isn't screwed?

return of the jedit----
is there a way to md5 sum a folder or something hashing folders?

I've had problems transfering large amounts of data with Konq on older versions of KDE, and since then I always do it from the command line.
Mike.

#!/bin/sh
# useage: arcbu parameter1
# where param1 is the name of either a dir or a file
# in cur-wrk-dir makes a .tgz compressed archive
# the z option runs gzip; tars and gzips all in one
tar czf $1.$(date +%Y%m%d%-H%M).tgz $1
exit $?
# end

there's a little shell script I named arcbu (short for "archive backup")

Though I'm not recommending it, for lack of other, at times as root I've temporarily changed /home to writeable then as user I cd to /home and run

$ arcbu al

(al is my user folder ie /home/al )

Then quickly change the permissions on /home back to what they were beforehand.

It might be easier to just call arcbu from somewhere else, a writeable folder and then specify full path to al folder to arcbu

$ pwd
/tmp
$ arcbu /home/al

maybe that work. but that it puts several folders deep in/into the resultant .tgz file rather than compressing to folder al (one folder deep)
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Rsync -- you'd need to setup an rsync server
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I've never had a prob transfering then extracting such .tgz from arcbu.

Just one (.tgz) file to transfer. (I usually LAN network transfer, store a copy onto another computer)
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other: hopefully you're using the most correct driver for your HD's

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Alan.

Thanks for replies.

I had some trouble with konqueror so i should have been more careful. Currently, i'm not sure the new SATA drive is ok. I undeleted my old stuff so i hope i didn't loose something.

One thing is strange: only photographs and zipped files seemed to be damaged.

Ok, seems Konqueror broke the files. I'll some more testing but i'm 98% certain about it.
Even ftp via Konqueror is broken.

Any suggestion about it?
Any file manager to suggest?

I like gentoo, but it's a bit oldie. Xfe is good, but need more features.

Is there someone have big troubles using Konqueror?

Well, seems even the command line cp corrupts data... Maybe the SATA driver is faulty.
Is there a file copying system that checks the md5sum of transferred data? Can rsync do this?

Any chance you'd consider ext2/3 over reiser?

badblocks, smartctl, & SpinRite all have their potential places in vetting a HD before putting it in service.

I recently got 5 reconditioned WD 250's $80 apiece, & I am checking them thoroughly before putting them to use. Four of them are destined for a pair of RAID 1 arrays & as I write this I am running a homemade temp. sampling script on them (using smartctl).

Interestingly, 1 of the 4 seems to run substantially (6 deg. C) hotter than the others. This supposedly bodes ill for that HD's longevity. I think I will be returning it. Or at least getting an extended warranty.

I considered it already. In practice, i never had problem with reiserFS, and i had problems (unrecoverable loss of data) with ext3, so, i'm not ready to change, especially if reiser4 becomes stable.
What i'm looking for now, is some kind of secure copy, which check integrity at both ends.