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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:19:18
Message-Id: 1132107185.18728.39.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD by maxim wexler
1 On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
2 > Hello everybody,
3 >
4 > I ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=10240 to copy the
5 > contents of one drive to another as suggested on this
6 > list. And updated fstab and grub.conf. Now the PC
7 > boots into a kernel panic.
8
9 does dd use any sort of error checking?
10
11 > Any suggestions?
12
13 they way I do it every time, is create the partitions and use rsync.
14 Then you know every file will be copied correctly, and you can pick up
15 at some later stage between reboots.
16
17 HTH,
18 --
19 Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
20
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Re: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD Raymond Lillard <rlillard@×××××.net>