On 1 June 2012 17:50, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Timothy Musson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What [do] you think? Is this what happens when a hard drive begins to fail?

> Yes.

Cool, thanks - that's what my innards were telling me.

> Get a new (probably bigger) disk into the machine, and copy stuff
> over. Lots of ways of doing that :-)

cp -ar /media/wherever/the/rsync'd/backup/of/home/cwam/is /home/cwam

Should do the trick, hopefully :^)

-- 
Tim Musson
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