On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:26:44PM +0200, Simon Schmidig (schmidi6@etu.unige.ch) wrote: > I have a old IDE 2 GB hard disk with many bad sector. Now I have bay > a new SCSI 2 GB hard disk. Witch way is the best to transfer the > debian: > > 1) A new installation and then copy only the /home, /usr/local and /etc > directories. Probably best. > 2) create the same partitions on the new disk; then dd > if=/dev/old-partition > of=/dev/new-partition. No. > 3) create the partitions on the new disk, then > ( cd /old && tar cfSp - * ) | ( cd /new && tar xfSpv - ) If the files are OK. > What's about the files how was damaged by the bad sectors? What sectors were damaged? What filesystems? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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