Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960410134418.24231C-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604101919.VAA00772@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Michael Smith wrote: > > > If you're using csh, something like this : > > > > # cd /dead_filesystem > > # dump 0bf 10000000 - | (cd /new_filesystem; restore rvf -) > > I think you have to provide the `filesys' argument to dump. However, > this filesystem doesn't need to be a mounted one. So better: > > umount /dead_filesystem # assume it was mounted from /dev/wd0e > cd /new_filesystem > dump 0bf 10000000 - /dev/rwd0e | restore rvf - > > I think dump handles files with bad blocks (read errors) halfways > gracefully. Hmmm, I know that I can copy files to another drive with no problems using cp -R but the other drive just doesn't have the space... Richard
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