[TriLUG] Suggestions wanted for Linux laptop

[David Burton]

If the drive is failing (did you test it? w/ Drive Fitness Test?), then
copy it with ddrescue instead of dd.  dd will die when it hits a bad block.
 ddrescue will try hard to copy as much as possible.

Assuming /dev/sda is the old (sick) drive, /dev/sdb is the new drive
(attached via USB adapter), and /dev/sdc is your flash thumbdrive...

# verify that each of the drives is where you think it is:
fdisk -lu

# mount your thumb drive:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1

# copy the sick drive to the new one, with the ddrescue "log file" on your
thumbdrive:
ddrescue -B /dev/sda /dev/sdb /mnt/sdc1/drive.log

Dave


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Carl Crider wrote:
>
>  If you are happy with this laptop, I'd suggest getting a compatible drive
>> elsewhere.
>>
>
> +1
>
> dd if=old.drive of=new.drive
>
> # replace_drive; boot; keep_working
>
> Joe
>
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