Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > How do I prepare to invoke
i wrote: > > ddrescue -p /dev/sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/my_sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/sdc1_log tomas wrote: > his "big" disk > (where the backup is going to) has already a file system and is mounted. Meanwhile i began to doubt this. (Why would Richard need 5 lines ?) So i tried to find a Debian tutorial for creating a new filesystem on a previously unused partition. No luck. So - for the records and for checking by others - old school would be to do as superuser: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Check whether there is really no filesystem on /dev/sdb6 ! Only if not, create one by mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb6 Prepare the mount point mkdir /mnt/my_sdb6 Make it permanent by vi /etc/fstab where you add this line /dev/sdb6 /mnt/my_sdb6 ext3 rw 0 0 Mount it for the first time mount /mnt/my_sdb6 End being superuser. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A german server provider proposes similar (omit the cfdisk run, because your partition already exists): https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Hard_Disk_Formatting/Partitioning_and_Mounting_in_Debian_Linux Have a nice day :) Thomas
