why don't yout just use dd from the linux side. If you do it in single user mode, when you reboot with the new hard drive you should only get a few errors which should be easily corrected.
Shaya On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Al Youngwerth wrote: > I modified a little public domain dos program that will do a sector for > sector copy of one hard drive to up to three other hard drives. Its very > handy for quickly duplicating a linux configuration onto other disks of the > same type. > > I've noticed one problem however, When I first start up some of these new > disks, I tend to get a rash of "Unable to handle kernel paging request" > errors (2 to 4 of them) in the first day of operation and then they seem to > go away. I believe they may be disk related because I see the problem happen > with different programs and I seem to have plenty of swap space available > when it happens (I've seen it happen with top running and I was using about > 1.5MB of swap out of 32MB available). > > I'm adding a checksum verify to the program this morning and I'm going to > start forcing fsck on newly copied disks. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions? Should I be doing a mkswap -C after > the copy (to force a check for bad blocks)? Is there a fsck for swap? > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Al Youngwerth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > P.S. if anyone is interested in the disk copy progam, I can send you a copy. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
