On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:41, johan beisser wrote:
On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote:
Hi,
I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system
that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money).
Better replace the disk tomorrow, then. Or, implement the software
on a new system, and take the hit on some downtime while it's being
replaced.
Thanks for the tip. Just bought one.
Those are signs of odd errors on the physical media itself. OpenBSD
can (and may) crash due to bad sectors and failed writes. I did
allow a system to limp along on a bad drive for nearly a year while
I tried to source a very old (no longer available) drive.
The old disk is a 40Gb IDE disk and the new one one is a 120Gb disk.
If I want to clone the disk can I just cat /dev/sd0 > /dev/sd1 if I
boot off the install cd? I will rebuild this system on another box but
to make sure the disk doesn't die instantly I want to clone it asap
since it makes cash.
I've got another system on the boil with a 36Gb 15k scsi disk and
decent hardware but I want to keep this mac mini server going just
long enough to role the new server out.
Last night I connected a USB disk and tried to use dump to clone /dev/
rwd0a but it was only dumping the first 4Gb's which was irritating to
put it mildly. I used dump -0auf /usb/root.dump /dev/rwd0a
I also tried dump -0auB 4198400 -f /usb/root.dump /dev/rwd0a and
still it bombs out asking for the next media to be inserted after 4gb's.
Doesn't matter what I try still only dumps 4gb's. The system is a g4
which is a 32bit cpu which is the only clue I thought of that would
limit me to 4gb's.
khalid
