DD not working--SUCCESS!

[Karl Larsen]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> mount: /dev/sdb5 already mounted or /mnt busy
>>
>> The last 2 lines say that /dev/sdb5 is mounted to this Old Hard Drive 
>> somehow. I did not do this. /etc/fsack did not do this. So not sure what 
>
> Yes you did. See your opening mail of the thread titled 'dd and cp -a' 
> in which you say that you mounted it to /mnt, but didn't mention how. 
> I am assuming you made it permanent by adding it to fstab. And if you 
> did this, dd'ing the partition would take this setting over to the new 
> drive.
>
    This is being typed on the copy of F7 I made last night. I had a lot 
of things to set up in fstab and grub.conf, and I ran fsck to check the 
file system and it said it was fine.

    Had to use the Rescue CD because I forgot to set one thing on 
grub.conf :-(
But when I got that fixed it booted up EXACTLY like the original version 
with a couple of odd things.

    There are many things to consider before you make a copy of your 
working system with dd. If you do those things it is just scary how 
perfect the copy is :-P

    I will get this hard drive out of the computer now and the use of dd 
was a success.




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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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