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Long story short |
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- power outage damages hard drive |
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- under liveCD data can still be read [phew] |
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- comp will not boot from damaged hdd |
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- man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS |
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- installed new hdd | /dev/hda |
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- old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 = |
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/swap, hdb3 = /root reiserfs] |
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My question :- |
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I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? |
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I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems |
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then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused |
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to boot, sensed that I had been too obvious so after much googling I |
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have looked into parted though with no sucess as yet. |
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If someone could recommend a fools guide to this process I would |
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appreciate it, as I am tired somewhat poorer and generally fed up. |
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stu |
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ps. Essential files from Gentoo system are backed up to another |
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machine though not full system and I am loathed to reinstall Gentoo |
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then copy over these files when I am sure there is a better way of |
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"restoring" complete system from one hard drive to another. |
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"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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binary, those who don't" |
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--Unknown |
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