[wellylug] Fsck'd Partitions... help?

[David Antliff]

Jo Booth wrote:
> I suppose it's karma.  I tried to remove linux from a computer....
> <http://mangee.livejournal.com/86190.html#cutid1>

Ah, I had this in a Firefox tab to read but I didn't actually read it - 
answers a few questions I had.

You can 'dd' a disk over a network, by either piping it through ssh or 
netcat to another machine and store it as one big file. Then you can use 
most block device utilities on this file instead. It means you don't 
need to physically mirror the disk, just get the data off it. Even the 
loopback device can mount filesystems from within a file if you know the 
offsets of each partition.

But yeah, make a good backup or two FIRST.

-- 
David.