On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 8/2/05, Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Any recommendations, I need to suck all of this stuff off of the HD onto
> > > the new HD and at least Linux will let me get in there (windows just
> > > grins and says 'yea right!'.
> > >
> > > All I want to be able to do is set all on the disk read only for others
> > > besides root so I can start the process of copying it off.
> >
> > Why not copy it first and fix the permissions later? Or am I misunderstanding?
>
> When I try to copy it over it says I do not have permission to do so, only
> root (the samba piece under the Mepis CD is started up under DEMO)
Why is Samba involved? So mean Samba is running as the user "DEMO"
(all-caps username? are you sure?), and only root has permission to do
whatever you're trying to do?
If you have scratch space at least as big as the dying drive, I recommend
something like
cat /dev/hd$OLD_DRIVE > new_drive/old_drive.img
and deal with it later. Less messy to use (but more work to make) is
cat /dev/hd$OLD_DRIVE1 > new_drive/old_drive_p1.img
cat /dev/hd$OLD_DRIVE2 > new_drive/old_drive_p2.img
etc.
That way you have the malfunctioning drive spinning for as short a time as
possible. I've done this through an SSH connection, but it's much easier
and faster to do locally. I don't know what to do with the image(s) under
Windows.
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