On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can someone give me some guidance as to post-followup to dd, or > perhaps a repair of / partition, or to simply download Gparted-Live > and make a partition to partition copy of / (which I am downloading > as I write up this post)? > > Curiously, why is it that dd works for XP/Vista and not Fedora-9? A few things I can think of: dd with a bs=8M (or some blocksize bigger than the default) argument runs *way* faster. So if you want to try dd-ing again (maybe something got corrupted somehow the first time), it will likely finish in an hour or so instead of 6. You can also use dd on a partition by partition basis in the same way ... just specify the partition device name instead of the whole disk. ... which would be even faster if you want to just retry the partition. Just make sure you are not clning the corrupted/empty partition over the good one. It is *very* easy to do such things with dd. Are you leaving the old hard drive still in the machine when rebooting after cloning ... maybe just putting it into the secondary interface. If so, then you might be running into disk label conflicts with Fedora struggling to figure out which partition labeled "/" to mount. Be wary of booting your system with two cloned harddrives installed. I have been burned by that in the past with Windows. Somehow it decided to use a little bit of the OS from one drive and a little bit of the OS from the other drive such that it ran when both were in the machine but if I pulled either one out, it would not boot. Or alternatively, if your partitions are being mounted by UUID then some might not be getting mounted at all. That might account for the missing x,y,z errors. Check what your fstab on the new disk says. I think the UUID would change for the partition on the new disk but I am not sure. 'blkid /dev/sda1' is how to get the UUID of sda1 I have used dd in the past to do the things you seem to be doing, so unless something got broken in F9, it should work. /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
