On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All, >today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD >Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply >'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work >with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at >some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible >messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx' >there was only "read only testing". Is there any way to do read/write >test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem?
The best way I know to perform a direct copy of one disk to another is the following: cd / find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt Where you're copying everything from the root filesystem downwards, including mount points (but not their contents), onto a filesystem mounted at /mnt. I hope that this helps you. Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..." ----------------------= (send replies to rob@)
