Corrupt Superblock on /home - semi-hijack

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Feb 20 17:04:38 UTC 2006


On Monday 20 February 2006 15:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Oops - refreshing my memory of what went before,  I presume the setup is
> > Drive a - has running linux system
> > Drive b - is damaged drive
> > Drive c - is new drive
> >
> > Drive b and c are identified by fdisk, and should not be mounted.  Is
> > that right?
> >
> > Anne
>
> That is right. You do not need any formatting/partitioning on the
> target drive when you are duplicating the entire drive. Everything
> that is readable on the old drive will be copied to the new drive.
> If I remember correctly, with the conv=noerror, it does a zero-fill
> of unreadable blocks.
>
Thanks, Mikkel.

Anne
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