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I've determined that I have a failing drive in my DirecTivo. Ages ago ( probably 2 years or more), I bought the unit with a 40GB drive in it. I subsequently upgraded the drive to a 120GB drive, and it has been running happily since.
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Anyhow, I downloaded the Weaknees version of the MFSTools 2 ISO, burned it, set up a machine with the old 120GB drive and a new 160GB drive (finding a 120GB drive isn't easy). Booted off of the cdrom, which recognized both disks, and I entered in:
It chugged for a few minutes (~5mins) as it analyzed the source disk. It spit out:
And I am back at a prompt. Hrmm..
SO.. what am I doing wrong here? I was hoping to avoid doing a simple dd of the two drives. I'm not entirely attached to the video contents of the original drive, but it would be nice to move them over if I could.
A full description can be found at http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=52383.
Anyhow, I downloaded the Weaknees version of the MFSTools 2 ISO, burned it, set up a machine with the old 120GB drive and a new 160GB drive (finding a 120GB drive isn't easy). Booted off of the cdrom, which recognized both disks, and I entered in:
Code:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
Code:
Source drive size is 39 hours
- Upgraded to 129 hours
Uncompressed backup size: 116239 megabytes
Restore failed: Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself.
SO.. what am I doing wrong here? I was hoping to avoid doing a simple dd of the two drives. I'm not entirely attached to the video contents of the original drive, but it would be nice to move them over if I could.
Even though it reports that the drive can be upgraded 3 more times, the backup/restore process still fails, and, as it turns out, the truth is that there is a limit on the number of tivo video (mfs) partitions ON A SINGLE DRIVE. Sure, the Tivo can be expanded by adding more drives, but, since this has already been upgraded once, it's already at the maximum number of partitions.
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