ext3 corrupted

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:53:52PM -0400, Marc Lijour wrote:
> Thank you for all these great tips. It's hard to keep up with the mail
> with one less computer ;)
> 
> I have 2 disks. My data is one the drive which failed. I commented it out
> from /etc/fstab and I stopped using it. Now the second drive seems to be
> failing. I even got the BIOS not founding the drives at boot time once.
> Which makes me wonder if the problem does not come from the board.
> 
> In any case, I have a technical question about dd. My data is on
> /dev/sda10 (around 100GB). Say I plug another SATA drive (say a new 500GB
> drive). How should I proceed? I assume I should first create a partition
> with exactly the same size (or a little more) on the new drive, and then
> run dd. Is that correct? At that point, you'll understand I take no chance
> with my data ;)

Actually don't make any partitions if you have a spare (larger) disk.
Just dd the whole old drive to the new drive.  That will include
partition table and all.

--
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists