On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat > improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched > to using it whenever I need to do this. >
Running it now. Waiting to see if it works any better. > > Take it as an omen. This might be the opportune time to ween yourself > from it. :-) > Not mine. My machine has Sid running :) > > Partition the new drive with the same sized partition as the previous > rescue partition. I like using sfdisk for this purpose. > > sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.partitions # dumps partition table > Thanks. Done. And have the file. I just noticed that the other disc I have is smaller (250GB). So would it work, if I manually edit the "size=" sector number and then write it to the disk. Can I just change the OS partition size in the dump by reducing the total sector count for the smaller disk by the start sector number of the third partition of the dying disk partition table? > Then you can clone the old partitions onto the new disk this way: > > sfdisk /dev/sdX < sda.partitions # writes /dev/sda partition table > ... > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ > > Bob Hmmm... Thanks Bob, never heard of supergrubdisk. Looks like a good tool. Waiting for gddrescue to finish. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fda7507.9040...@fastmail.fm
