On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:07:00PM +1100, Stephen Robert Norris wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 19:07, Kieran Haughey wrote: > e2fsck -c should mark any bad blocks as not to be used, and repair the > filesystem (as much as is possible) around them.
Well for some reason the sectors in question don't get marked as bad blocks and every time I run e2fsck it always hits them. They basically fail to read the sector 4-5 times and then move on, usually the failures occur around the same point of the disk (geometrically speaking). I will try to give these another run over though. > 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 :) Graeme provided me a link to a HOWTO to do this between different disk sizes which I intend reading through first, but I'll keep the dump/restore in mind :-). Thanks, Kieran -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
