Hi Peter, > I didn't know that you should do each partition individually.
fsck(8) stands for filesystem check and with each partition holding one filesystem, it needs to run on each partition=filesystem. > I'm trying Deans suggestion to catch an image and clone it, but not > successfully so far. Try these commands, pasting one at a time and checking for no errors. I don't think I've messed up, but I haven't tried them so you should have a read first. In particular, you don't want dd's conv=noerror suggested at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dd#Cloning_an_entire_hard_disk As normal, specifying the wrong device can trample your main hard disk so `measure twice', and then again. src=/dev/sdb # Change as appropriate. Disk, not partition. img=${src//\//_} img=${img#_}.img devbs=$(stat -fc %s $src) echo copy $src to $img using multiple of $devbs bytes sudo dd if=$src bs=$((devbs * 32)) of=$img dest=/dev/sdc # Change as appropriate. Disk, not partition. devbs=$(stat -fc %s $dest) echo copy $img to $dest using multiple of $devbs bytes sudo dd if=$img bs=$((devbs * 32)) of=$dest sync # Vital. Don't remove media until it's finished. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting at *new* venue: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-12-04 20:00 Check if you're replying to the list or the author Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
