On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 19:07, Kieran Haughey wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I've run e2fsck -c on the drive, although even it fails to deal with the specific >sectors. I'm hoping a complete reformat will fix it, but I'm not holding my breath >:-). > > Thanks for the hinr on dump/restore, I will look into these. I do remember though >that there was a method of using tar to do it without creating and files >(stdout->stdin) which I might look into. > > Thanks, Kieran
e2fsck -c should mark any bad blocks as not to be used, and repair the
filesystem (as much as is possible) around them.
You can use dump | restore with appropriate arguments - that's what I
meant, only I didn't actually remember to say it. That eliminates the
need for any temporary files. I prefer it over tar because it gets
permissions, devices, sparse files, etc. etc. right by default, I always
miss an option with tar :)
Stephen
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