dd appeared to foobar FC6

blackdragonblood · 12-01-2006, 07:58 AM

The last significant thing I did was to use dd to clone my hard drive while doing other stuff. Now certain apps don't open and Zod acts funny. When I reboot I see the following for each service:

Quote:

rm: cannot remove /var/lock/subsys/"name of service" Read Only file system

Did using dd while checking e-mail and surfing foo bar something? I'm ceratin that I'm running on the original hard drive. I installed chkrootkit and a scan reveled nothing. I also check log files and didn't see anything special.

Ideas?

Nathanael · 12-01-2006, 08:14 AM

what was the dd command you used?

pixellany · 12-01-2006, 08:43 AM

Using dd (or any copying utility) while using the drive for something else is not a good idea. Because you are writing to the disk at the same time you are copying it, the outcome is not predictable. This is **particularly** true with dd. Because it is operating at a low level, you do not know what files are being copied at any given time.

blackdragonblood · 12-01-2006, 10:16 AM

I did the following:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

Next time I will boot from a liveCD.

Thanks for the help. I guess I might reload. I was planning on moving to Debian anyway.