Mick ha scritto: > It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, mount > the > lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new disk/partitions? The > size of the new disk and partitions can be anything you like, as long as they > are not smaller than the amount of data you are trying to tar into them. > Then you can run grub from the LiveCD to install the grub boot code in the > MBR of the new disk. Other than the time it'll take you to partition the new > disk (and reboot), tar should run faster than dd (it will not be copying over > empty space) and it will be essentially defraging your data onto the new > partition. You may find that emerge sync runs faster than it used to.
Yes, that's practically the other option I was thinking today at work (ehm, between data analysis sessions, of course!). Just a thing: why tar and not cp? I'm not that familiar with tar except than for the usual tar -xzv(j)f ... Yes, I'm not an old unix dog... m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
