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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:09:34
Message-Id: 46FF8E89.3010806@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors by Florian Philipp
1 Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Arnau Bria schrieb:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
6 >> has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
7 >> Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
8 >> wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data
9 >> from old disk to new disk, but I'm not sure if I must do a cp -a or a
10 >> dd. I mean, if I do a cp -a my new disk will have a new journaling, and
11 >> if I do a dd, new disk will have same. Am I right? What do you
12 >> recommend?
13 >>
14 >> And, following with this, any guide to configure a RAID1 with a system
15 >> already installed?
16 >> TIA,
17 >> Arnau
18 >
19 > Just a small note: When you are using cp -a, keep in mind that
20 > something like cp -a /home/user/* doesn't fetch files and folders that
21 > are hidden (for example .vimrc). I've lost all my settings that way
22 > when I migrated my /home :(
23
24
25 That's odd, mine does. That's what I use to do back-ups on my system
26 and it get all the .* files and directories. I have my back-up mounted
27 at /mnt/gentoo and this is a list of my root user directory:
28
29 root@smoker / # ls -al /mnt/gentoo/root/
30 total 1128
31 drwx------ 29 root root 4096 2007-09-29 00:54 .
32 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-09-29 01:26 ..
33 -rw------- 1 root root 11467 2007-09-27 15:15 .bash_history
34 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 2006-10-01 21:39 .bash_login
35 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 2006-10-01 21:39 .bash_logout
36 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-05-03 07:21 .ccache
37 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4487 2004-05-10 07:37 CFLAGS-script
38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40304 2007-01-08 04:21 config
39 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2007-03-18 06:11 .config
40 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43453 2007-06-25 23:09 config-2-6-20-r8
41 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1045 2006-11-18 03:07 cruft.removal
42 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279 2005-12-20 13:57 dalek.revoke
43 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1360 2007-08-29 06:38 Data.kdar
44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 2007-09-27 17:47 .DCOPserver_smoker__0
45 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-09-29 00:54 .DCOPserver_smoker_:0 ->
46 /root/.DCOPserver_smoker__0
47 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32520 2007-04-10 03:16 dead.letter
48 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-09-09 04:50 Desktop
49 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-01-19 04:56 .distcc
50 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10213 2006-09-04 04:03 elog
51 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3011 2006-10-30 03:25 elog-list
52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877 2006-09-10 15:38 emerge-script
53 drwxr-xr-x 2 500 500 4096 2005-07-18 15:59 enotice-0.2.9.1_alpha
54 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25347 2006-04-20 22:46 etc-portclean
55 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 768 2006-10-20 01:52 fahback
56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 153361 2006-10-18 01:43 finstall4.9
57 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-10-20 01:52 foldingathome
58 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 854 2007-01-29 17:41 .fonts.cache-1
59 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1256 2006-08-22 00:12 fragck.pl
60 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-08-07 13:45 .gconf
61 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-08-07 13:59 .gconfd
62 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8240 2006-09-05 18:50 genscript.sh
63 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-09-18 22:41 .gimp-2.2
64 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-12-09 14:17 .gnome2
65 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-12-09 14:17 .gnome2_private
66 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2006-12-11 22:51 .gphoto
67 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-29 00:49 .gstreamer-0.8
68 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67 2007-09-23 21:34 .hplip.conf
69 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 2007-07-31 06:58 .htoprc
70 -rw------- 1 root root 2284 2007-09-27 17:47 .ICEauthority
71 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-11-27 00:03 .kde
72 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-08-03 09:23 .keep
73 -rw------- 1 root root 35 2007-07-30 04:05 .lesshst
74 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-09-14 04:03 .local
75 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2007-09-18 22:15 .macromedia
76 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-09-14 04:04 .mcop
77 -rw------- 1 root root 31 2007-09-28 04:16 .mcoprc
78 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 2007-06-03 00:18 minicom.log
79 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-12-17 02:37 .mozilla
80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-13 13:15 .mplayer
81 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2007-08-18 17:48 .ooo-2.0
82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23540 2004-05-10 08:20 prune-script
83 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-13 22:51 .qt
84 -rw------- 1 root root 14491 2007-09-18 22:41 .recently-used
85 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31133 2007-05-02 13:18 recompile-remaining-packages
86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-12 23:00 rep4.py
87 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1232 2007-09-26 02:06 .revdep-rebuild.0_env
88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 377327 2007-09-26 02:06 .revdep-rebuild.1_files
89 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18877 2007-09-26 02:06 .revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath
90 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild
91 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds
92 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.5a_status
93 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.5b_status
94 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.5_order
95 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2007-09-26 02:10 .revdep-rebuild.6_status
96 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157 2006-12-13 18:09 .screenrc
97 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2006-12-13 18:09 .screenrc~
98 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-10-02 20:13 .scribus
99 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39712 2004-08-15 08:05 server.save
100 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-06-26 00:45 .ssh
101 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2007-09-29 00:53 .thumbnails
102 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 506 2006-05-17 19:39 USE-vaild-script
103 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1329 2007-08-29 05:25 Wallpapers.kdar
104 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-22 02:53 .wireshark
105 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-06-26 23:16 .xauthClejoT
106 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-06-26 16:43 .xauthHe7jsL
107 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-04-10 01:08 .xauthhYnCuf
108 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2006-12-27 17:19 .xauthiFJTYh
109 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-09-06 03:32 .xauthIQEJV1
110 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-09-27 19:04 .xauthiXectC
111 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-09-28 15:13 .xauthmpYx4r
112 -rw------- 1 root root 0 2006-09-13 10:10 .Xauthority
113 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-03-04 13:15 .xauthpdEPUu
114 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2006-12-27 17:19 .xauthQ1QG5o
115 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-03-18 23:21 .xauthvUHiuD
116 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-09-27 17:47 .xauthWrAMse
117 -rw------- 1 root root 51 2007-03-02 11:02 .xauthyTPJ6s
118 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-17 23:44 .xine
119 root@smoker / #
120
121 Ideas on why mine does and yours doesn't??
122
123 Dale
124
125 :-) :-)
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