On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:55:35 -0400, Bob S wrote:
I could as suggested, disconnect my sda and plug in the new drive there and do a dd as David suggested. But, would dd copy over the "corruption"? If so, could I then rsync and replace the "corrupted" portions and then use gparted to create more partitions after everything was copied over and working correctly?
dd would give you a sector-by-sector duplicate of the original drive. So if there are corrupted files, then yes, it would copy the corruption. But if there are corrupted files, rsync or cp won't fix that either. You might be better off pulling what data you can from the drive (not OS stuff) and then doing a fresh reinstall of 11.1 on the new drive. Or vice-versa, do a fresh install on the new drive, plug the old drive in and then copy the data you want to preserve from the dying drive. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org