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drive A expansion failed
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Posted by: newsposter

used : mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb (restore/expand to new A and new B)

uncompressed backup was 1364 mb
restored 100%

cleaning up restore, wait a moment
restore done!
drive A expansion failed!

What am I missing? I tried the command above 2 times and got the same result

I have 2 160 gig drives. I did try to salvage old recordings off of 2 80 gig drives but when I restored, it should overwrite everything right? Or should I format the 160s to erase the bad images that were dd from the old 80s

PS I am happy with the 137 limit

Posted by: Robert S

Not seen that one before, although I have seen MFS Tools hang at that point.

What happens if you restore with -x and then mfsadd?

Posted by: newsposter

restore with -x? you mean instead of s127?

When I tried mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdb (expanding new A drive and new B drive) it said it would result in too many partitions

tivo shows 35 hours which is obviously from my orig. image

just tried mfsadd -x /dev/hdc and got the same too many partitions

tried mfsadd /dev/hdc and got current est. standalone size 39 hrs nothing to add

Posted by: Robert S

Perhaps something like

mfsadd -X /dev/hdb /dev/hdc

or

mfsadd -X /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdb

Posted by: newsposter

did those...just tried mfsadd -x /dev/hdc and got the same too many partitions

tried mfsadd /dev/hdc and got current est. standalone size 39 hrs nothing to add

Posted by: newsposter

did mfsrestore -x -xzpi mnt dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb

said adding pair dev hdc 14 dev hdc 15
size 147 hours 108 more

adding pair dev hdb2 dev hdb 3
size 312 hours 165 more

now to tivo to see what works!

Posted by: Robert S

You're going to need more swap, I'm afraid, or your TiVo will get stuck if it ever GSOD's. Do it again with the -s 127 option.

Posted by: newsposter

you mean now that it is expanded? is the s127 in place of the -x?

this is the orig. that didn't work

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb

when i deleted the s127 and replaced it with -x, it did work. are you saying go back to -s127 alone or add the -x in the front?

Posted by: Robert S

Having -x on its own is no different to bundling it into -xzpi. -s 127 wouldn't stop the restore either. Therefore something weird must have happened and if you try it again with the original options, it might work.

Posted by: newsposter

mfsrestore -x -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb worked!!!

it worked on the PC so now to go throw it in but it should work fine based on my last time I did almost the same command

so is there anything wrong with the line above or I am good to go if I have GSOD or any other errors?

Thanks for all your help!

Posted by: newsposter

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
Having -x on its own is no different to bundling it into -xzpi. -s 127 wouldn't stop the restore either. Therefore something weird must have happened and if you try it again with the original options, it might work.

just to clarify, the restore was always successful..it's the drive that wouldn't expand..

thanks again!

Posted by: Robert S

That's fine. -s 127 gives you enough swap for 2x137Gb (which is what you've got).