[wplug] Should this be a concern? (var/log/messages snippet)

[Jonathan S Billings]

Mike wrote:
> Nice..  So to copy everything to another drive I should just be able to do a
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb 
> 
> and have a bootable replica?  Will this break lilo like cloning with ghost does?
> 
> -Mike

You might want to run:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=notrunc,noerror

So it skips over the bad sectors without aborting the dd.


>>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT), Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Looks like the messages I got before my last hd died.  I'd save your important
>>>data while you still can.
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