hi ya On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Keith Goettert wrote:
> The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a > copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would > like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them > painlessly. too late .... if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more reads/write disks dies for multiple reasons ... pick the right one for why your disk is dying .. and prevent it next time if you want to burn a cdrom ... you need more disk space on a clean disk if you want to do a disk to disk copy .. presumably you already have a good disk ...and you have excluded bad cables, bad memory, bad motherboard, etc as possible reasons for why the disks appear to be bad ?? assuming everything is still functional assuming your new disk ( hdc ) is on a new cable mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) sync ; umount /mnt/hdc1 repeat for each partition if your disk is functional ... the above disk to disk will work if your disk is dying ........ the aboce will copy parts of the disk and some files will be corrupt .. which ones is bad is the "test" === best bet ... -- restore your data from backups onto a new disk -- leave the current disk alone .. retire it as is ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]