"DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@d-and-d.com> writes:

>My newsreader forced me to trim to fewer newsgroups, so I trimmed to the
>one in which I am reading/following-up.

>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.

Once I get the restore CD side of things taken care of this is what I plan
to do. I've found a local source of 800 MB CDR's now (didn't even know they
existed until today!), and will get Zeffie's Raq4 updated restore CD ISO
burnt so it can be put to good use.

Craig.
--
SUN RIPENED KERNELS - Surplus Sun Microsystems Equipment, Parts + Accessories
Location: Sydney, Australia - Web: http://www.sunrk.com.au - Get back on track
at the SunShack - Web: http://www.sunshack.org - Cobalt Users mailing list
Web: http://lios.apana.org.au/mailman/listinfo/cobalt_users