Hard Disk failure

[Benjamin P. Keating]

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 at 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.
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