Hi, I have a strange problem:

I cloned my root partition to a new hard drive because the old one made problems (see thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=580649 in case you are interested). The new system works fine and boots without problems.

Besides one thing: after working for an hour, or so, it sets the root partition to read-only mode because it has error! After checking (fsck /dev/hda) there are no errors but system won't boot again telling me the superblock has write time in the future and weird stuff...

When I start the ubuntu Live-CD I can mount and use the partition without problems - and I can check it - there are no errors!
(1) first checking fsck tells me "/dev/hda2 contains file system with errors, check forced", but it does not find any. Checking inodes, directories, etc. - everything's fine!
(2) checking again tells me "/dev/hda2:clean" - only now I can re-boot

I changed the hard disk, I changed the IDE cable and I even tried the other IDE port on the main board... nothing!?

So, my question: when cloning a partition - do I clone file system errors as well?

Seems so - the answer is yes, dd makes a 100% identical copy...

But I seem to have two problems here:
(1) the strange error that happens to set my root partition to read-only
(2) the boot time in the future bug - that seems to be well-known in ubuntu forums (e.g. here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ogs/+bug/63175)

I only know from personal experience that if I would set my system date in the past and leave the filesystem as it is now, during the next reboot the system would start showing up a lot of errors and weird stuff would happen. Therefore fix first your problem with the system date and check afterwards if anything else is still wrong.

The problem is that the last mount / write time is set again and again 2 hours wrong (due to timezone difference)... so the deal is not starting the system for 2 hours and it will start... :-/

This has to be possible to turn off!!

That's what you get for using Ubuntu. Look!...it's in my profile. Not impressed, not impressed at all. I just downloaded the 32bit version (to many holes in my head), because I can't execute martian_modem the user space driver for my modem in the 64bit. And it wiped out all my other 6 operating systems when I installed it because it wiped out my boot manager, no boot manager...no nothing. I'll install the 32bit version in Vmware inside of Windows 32bit, I'm pretty sure Windows can control this prick, because I can't.
Oh! sorry, the question was "when cloning a partition - do I clone file system errors as well?".
Yes, dd does a bit for bit image, every 1 and every 0 in the exact same spot in the partition.