On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 16:08, Lule George William wrote: > Well, to continue with this thread, > 1) I got the Drive Fitness Test as recommended by Mark(dft32_v360.img). > Apparently it was in img form, as can be seen above and not > *****img.bin as the accompanying literature was suggesting. I tried to > dd it onto a 1.44M floppy(dd if=dft32_v360.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=8k), but > it would always claim that the floppy didn't have enough space for it. > I wonder how Mark manages to put a 1.5M image onto a 1.44M floppy!!!! I > gave up on that line.
You can format a 1.44MB floppy as a 1.722MB floppy. Do a google search on this, you could also try dd if=dft32_v360.img of=/dev/fd0u1722 > 2) I tarred the most important folders and scp'd them to another > machine. I wanted to write a cron job that would do it every 6 hours > but the problem is that every time you scp, you have to provide the > password of the user on the remote machine and that I failed to > incorporate within the cron job. Can someone kindly assist a way to do > this? > 3) The final thing was to clone the whole hard-drive but even after > cloning, when I mount the clone, I get Input/output errors as shown > below > > =======================Begin Extract==================================== > postmaster1:/ # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/slave > postmaster1:/ # cd /mnt/slave > postmaster1:/mnt/slave # ls > . bin cdrom floppy lost+found mnt root usr > .. boot dev home lule opt sbin var > backups cdrecorder etc lib media proc tmp > postmaster1:/mnt/slave # cd home > bash: cd: home: Input/output error > postmaster1:/mnt/slave # cd backups > bash: cd: backups: Input/output error > postmaster1:/mnt/slave # cd var > postmaster1:/mnt/slave/var # ls > . X11R6 cache lib log mail.OLD neomail run squid tmp > yp > .. adm games lock mail named opt spool state webmin > postmaster1:/mnt/slave/var # cd spool > bash: cd: spool: Input/output error > postmaster1:/mnt/slave/var # > > ====================End of Extract====================================== > > Has anyone got an idea what went wrong and suggest a way forward? > Thank you very much > > --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
