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