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On 2008-05-11, Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

[ ... ]

> I found some good hints on copying filesystems under Linux though
> something's gone wrong with the root partition of the original disk now and
> the system just sits there at 'booting....'. so it looks like I will need
> todo the restore CD method to get a fresh OS install on a new disk then
> copywhat I can off the old disk or from backups if they're recent enough.

A suggestion: Mount the bad disk read-only, to minimize the
growth of errors by attempts to update access times and such while
copying. It still won't protect it from more damage from grit
originating from already damaged sections, but it may mimize the
corruption of data which was still good when you started. In
particular, it is likely to protect your directories and inodes from
more corruption.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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