On Monday 20 February 2006 15:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Oops - refreshing my memory of what went before, I presume the setup is > > Drive a - has running linux system > > Drive b - is damaged drive > > Drive c - is new drive > > > > Drive b and c are identified by fdisk, and should not be mounted. Is > > that right? > > > > Anne > > That is right. You do not need any formatting/partitioning on the > target drive when you are duplicating the entire drive. Everything > that is readable on the old drive will be copied to the new drive. > If I remember correctly, with the conv=noerror, it does a zero-fill > of unreadable blocks. > Thanks, Mikkel. Anne
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