Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:02:28 -0700 From: "Benjamin P. Keating" <bkeating@gmail.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard Disk failure Message-ID: <1d54d5440410082002a847a8f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> References: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Hey Dean, Everything is a file in the UNIX world, so copying over file for file is no problem. be sure that you preserve permissions (aka 'archive mode') preseriving ownership and permissions is vital. '``cp'' should do everything you need in this case. Are you sure there are bad sectors? Can you attach your dmesg output (just relative section please). HTH Ben On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 06:07:27 +0800 (WST), Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> wrote: > > Dear All, > > A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail... > > One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr > filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to install a > new drive, partition it in an identical fashion to the faulty drive and > copy the filesystems across to the new drive and then boot from the new > drive? > > Is there a walkthrough on the best way to do this? > > Regards, > > d. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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