[dbcollies]

I have a Bolt+ 3TB model. The drive died, and TiVo replaced it. The new drive has now died. I decided I didn't need that much capacity, so I ordered a 2TB drive, thinking it might hold up a little better, and a lot cheaper.

On the off chance I could save my recordings, I pulled the bad drive an put it into an old Linux box I had lying around, and booted into the MFSTool live CD. Turns out there is a S.M.A.R.T. error on the drive, but it's still readable. But when I try to copy the data to the new drive, I get an error that the target drive isn't big enough.

I understand that the new drive is only 2/3 the size of the original, but it wasn't anywhere near full of recordings. I would have expected there to be enough room for what was on it.

Is what I'm trying to do simply not possible?

 

[ThAbtO]

Its not how much is stored on the drive, but the partitions are a fixed size.

 

[jmbach]

I have a Bolt+ 3TB model. The drive died, and TiVo replaced it. The new drive has now died. I decided I didn't need that much capacity, so I ordered a 2TB drive, thinking it might hold up a little better, and a lot cheaper.

On the off chance I could save my recordings, I pulled the bad drive an put it into an old Linux box I had lying around, and booted into the MFSTool live CD. Turns out there is a S.M.A.R.T. error on the drive, but it's still readable. But when I try to copy the data to the new drive, I get an error that the target drive isn't big enough.

I understand that the new drive is only 2/3 the size of the original, but it wasn't anywhere near full of recordings. I would have expected there to be enough room for what was on it.

Is what I'm trying to do simply not possible?

You might be able to use MSFTools to shrink the drive. What command line did you use for the copy?

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[dbcollies]

mfscopy -a /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

I also tried

mfscopy -am 2000 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

and

mfscopy -aM 2000 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

to see if they would help

 

[jmbach]

mfscopy -a /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

I also tried

mfscopy -am 2000 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

and

mfscopy -aM 2000 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

to see if they would help

Use mfscopy -as /dev/sdb/ dev/sdc

 

[dbcollies]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, adding the -s didn't change anything. Guess I'm out of luck with my old recordings.

Use mfscopy -as /dev/sdb/ dev/sdc

 

[jmbach]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, adding the -s didn't change anything. Guess I'm out of luck with my old recordings.

Getting the same error? How full is the original drive? Do you. Have a lot of suggestions recorded?

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[dbcollies]

Getting the same error? How full is the original drive? Do you. Have a lot of suggestions recorded?

I didn't think it was THAT full. I had recently cleaned out the suggestions folder, though perhaps the deleted items folder is still taking up a lot of space. I assume the -a flag isn't smart enough to skip that folder.

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