On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi All, > >today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD > >Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply > >'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work > >with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at > >some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible > >messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx' > >there was only "read only testing". Is there any way to do read/write > >test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem? > > The best way I know to perform a direct copy of one disk to another is > the following: > > cd / > find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt > > Where you're copying everything from the root filesystem downwards, > including mount points (but not their contents), onto a filesystem > mounted at /mnt.
It seems that system is working fine. Bad things occur when I copy big file on separate partition (/home). Thats why my main at this point concern is to perform read&write testing of harddisk. Unfortunatly I don't know which utilites I should use for this propose. Tthanks for any advice, Eugene Sevinian ---------------------------- CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873