From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 06:32:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3049716A4CE; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 06:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from cloudburst.umist.ac.uk (cloudburst.umist.ac.uk [130.88.119.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3501D43D2D; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 06:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=mail.fajita.org) by cloudburst.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B4hWU-00019s-TJ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:32:26 +0000 Received: from majic.fajita.org ([192.168.0.4]) by mail.fajita.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B4hW5-000B3X-LG; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:32:01 +0000 Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by majic.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2KEW1oU042502; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:32:01 GMT (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:32:01 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Message-ID: <20040320143201.GA42458@lewiz.org> References: <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org> <20040316111325.GB742@adelaide.lemis.com> <20040316172526.GB1236@lewiz.org> <20040318025602.GZ58155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319030334.GA1985@lewiz.org> <20040319222738.GQ21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040320002311.GA34271@lewiz.org> <20040320004423.GX21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040320004423.GX21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lewiz@fajita.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:32:29 -0000 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:14:23AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I still don't understand why you're using dd. To create as near-perfect copy of the disk as possible? I want to work on the failing disk as little as possible in case I cause further damage. Since the RAID0 volume is around 300GB I don't have anywhere that I could cp all of that data so I saw the best alternative as dd'ing the disk. Can you suggest another method I might use to achieve what I want? Thanks, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXFXhItq0KFQv7T8RAgEpAKDMQ+B1jo08c+bm+kH0EUl+foUfqACfaZeL nZOL+mR9Lq0H41KyQQDplS4= =SE2X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--