Paul F. Johnson writes: > Hi, > > It looks like my problem with readahead isn't readahead! > > The drive which has my home directories seems to have a problem. If I log in > as root (please don't bitslap me yet!), and from the command line look at the > home directories, I can see paul, becki, richard and lost+found which is fine > as they're supposed to be there. > > If I then try to look at the contents of /home/paul, it takes ages and the > hard drive makes funny noises, so I'm thinking it's at the end of it's life > more or less. > > fsck shows some bits and pieces, but essentially, it's not picking up any > problems. > > Is there a way I can copy everything from one drive to another and keep the > permissions from a dodgy drive to a working one? cp -ar seems an option, but > it takes a while! The traditional fast way is "dump -f - | restore -f -" [*] but I'm not sure dump handles extended attributes correctly. Andrew. [*] The drive should NOT be mounted R/W. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
