On 11/21/2016 05:21 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Given that I am experiencing I/O errors, it would seem that a dd is not
advisable. I can dd the boot portion onto a new drive, I can build the
partitions on a new drive. I can boot the system with a live CD.
What is a good way to move the OS and all the data? I used Clonezilla
some many years ago, but that does not seem to be the way to go when
there are bad sections on the source drive?
If the disk is not too far gone, you can very carefully overwrite the
bad blocks which causes the disk to remap them. This might buy you
enough time to copy the filesystem somewhere else using normal means.
You should do the overwriting with a live image and should probably run
an fsck after doing the overwrites to make sure you don't get filesystem
errors while doing the copying.
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