if you installed of a cdrom you can use that same cdrom (or another one) as a rescue cd by typing 'linux rescue' instead of pressing enter. This will give you a work space and tools. You will have to mount both drives and use cp -R (I would look very closely at cp's option 'cp --help' before I did it so you only have to do it once) or dd I have used dd for floppy's but don't know how it would work with HDDs, however this seems like a a lower level command and their for may copy the filesystem more thouroughly. Can anyone comment on dd's usage? Those are my two cents. -Pounder -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:53 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Rus Foster wrote: >On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote: > > > >>Hi all... I need some advice. >> >>One of my disks give me an 0x40 error (uncorrectable error), and I think >>I need to replace that disk. >> >>Does any of you know of a program to "mirror" the disk, filesystem and >>all? I'm running redhat 9.0 if that matters, and I installed the >>standard which I think is ext3 (right?) >> >> >> > >Best thing you can do is make sure you have some disk space free (and >minimise use of the dying disk). Then boot on a new disk and copy data off >the old one using something like > >mount /dev/hdb1 /olddisk >cp -r /olddisk /newdisk/backup > >Then see how much of the data you can get back > > It's the boot-disk (the only disk in my rh. box) - asbjørn -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
