My hdd was giving a problem and it's still within the warranty period,so I decided to get it changed. My present disk geomerty is as follows:
hda1 / hda5 /home hda6 swap. I attached a second hdd as primary slave and created hdb1, hdb5 & hdb6. I then tar bzipped my home directory copied the file over to hdb5 and untarred it. so far so good. Then what I did was, mounted hdb1 on /mnt/floppy and did dd if=/devhda1 of=/dev/hdb1 it then ran for some time and then said some_no_of_records in some_no_of_records out (or somethingl like that records in was the same as records out). No error messages were thrown. now when I run df -h I am shown the size of both hda1 and hdb1 as the same (2.1 G) but when I cd into /mnt/floppy (where I have mounted /dev/hdb1) I cannot see any files at all !! Why is this happening ? Would it be better to tar bzip / , copy it over and then untar it in /dev/hdb1 ? regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
