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 Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 1:56 am Post subject: cpio and Input/Output error |
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My partition table is getting rather messy due to installing and uninstalling of operating systems, and I'd like to wipe it out and start it over and reinstall my gentoo installation onto a new partition. I used find, cpio and gzip to create a backup of my system which I will put on my second hard drive and then copy back, but when I try to copy that backup file I get the following message
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cp backup.bin.bz2 /mnt/mandrake
cp: reading `backup.bin.bz2': Input/output error
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The partition is ReiserFS and hasn't given me any similar problems up until this.
I would also like to know, since I'm posting anyway, is the following a correct command to make a backup of a partition? I've never done this before and the commands I saw in other posts didn't seem to quite fit my situation.
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find / -mount -xdev | cpio -o >backup.bin
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