Thank you very much David, much appreciated. Merry Christmas!
Will
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From: David Banks <[email protected]>
To: Will <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 23 December 2012, 16:45
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Question about identifying which disk has data on it
On 21 December 2012 22:36, Will <[email protected]> wrote:
> Q1 - Is there a command I can use to find out which disk is which? One has
> data on from the raid, the other is brand new and has never been used.
fdisk /dev/sda, use 'p' to print the partition table. If the disk is
the brand new one, it will have no partitions, or it may sometimes be
preformatted with a Windows partition. If you want to be totally sure,
just mount the disks in turn, and 'ls' the contents of the mount
point.
> Q2 - I then intend to use
> root# ddrescue -r-1 -n -S -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb recovery.log
> to clone from sda to sdb
> Is this correct please?
Looks fine.
Cheers,
--
David Banks <[email protected]>
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