On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 07:02:51AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I've recently returned to Fedora from SuSE. With SuSE I would always backup my > main laptop hard drive to a second drive via dd as follows: > 1) boot into single user mode (init 1) > 2) run dd if=/dev/SRC of=/dev/TARGET conv=noerror,sync bs=4k #where SRC = > my current OS drive and TARGET = the backup drive Try a larger block size, eg 64k or larger Are you sure you want noerror for a backup - that means 'ignore errors and continue' - the sort of think you might want when getting data off a failing disk, but not when doing a reliable backup. The sync option should be at best unnecessary, or at worst will corrupt your data. > I tried this yesterday with my new FC6 install. It from about 7:30pm until > 7:00am and I saw a message on the screen, something like this: > > Firmware error detected, ipw2200, restarting This is most likely a red herring. Your wireless firmware probably has a bug. -- Fire extinguisher (n) a device for holding open fire doors.
