[RAS] badblocks

[Thomas Krichel]

  Bob Parks writes

> Could very well be - the eduunix.ccut.edu is very good and I will go with 
> your theory.  I will be interested to know just
> how you rsync to the 143 gig and then make it bootable.

  I did it here. My laptop froze to death. I bought a desktop,
  and put the disk from the laptop in it, and booted 
  from the laptop disk. After initalizing
  the desktop disk on /dev/sdb, (making sure 
  I put in a swap) I mounted the main part of it to /vol,
  then

rsync -va --exclude /vol --exclude /proc --exclude /sys / /vol

  Then

grub-install --directory /vol/boot/grub /dev/sdb

  Edited /vol/etc/fstab, putting in the right device
  for the swap, hopefully, (did work after a few
  tries ;-)

  Put laptop disk out, put desktop disk in its place,
  bingo. 

  In nebka, the rsnyc is likely to fail. Therefore

rid stop
shutdown -h now

 boot in single user, mount / readonly.

e2fsck -c -y /dev/sda

  say, to use the badblack program to check
  the disk, mark the bad block as bad so that
  they don't turn up in the filesystem. If 
  my theory is correct, and no other bad 
  block appears (2 big ifs), you can start
  with the rsync.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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