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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
cc: questions@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > If you're using csh, something like this :
> > 
> > # cd /dead_filesystem
> > # dump 0bf 10000000 - | (cd /new_filesystem; restore rvf -)
> 
> I think you have to provide the `filesys' argument to dump.  However,
> this filesystem doesn't need to be a mounted one.  So better:
> 
> umount /dead_filesystem		# assume it was mounted from /dev/wd0e
> cd /new_filesystem
> dump 0bf 10000000 - /dev/rwd0e | restore rvf -
> 
> I think dump handles files with bad blocks (read errors) halfways
> gracefully.

	Hmmm, I know that I can copy files to another drive with no 
problems using cp -R but the other drive just doesn't have the space...

Richard