Comment 37 for bug 125702

Mike,
Thanks for the info. I tried cloning a drive as per your instructions below
and it worked flawlessly. Still, copying the files using cp -rf seems to
corrupt them during the copy process. Also, I blew away the casper-rw
partition after cloning and ended up with the same issues I had before (that
is with the config files).
I think I'm conflating several unrelated issues here and assuming they share
a common cause.
Still I'm finding the situation with the file corruption the most irritating
of all. Using ext3 works for me and mypen drive has held up OK so far.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:15 AM, mikeXYZ <email address hidden> wrote:

> Ron Z, that's not the case for my experience with this bug (corrupt
> files already there somehow)--it's clearly a shutdown issue for me &
> have seen this elsewhere, too.
>
>
> btw,
> As for the flash drive, if I have a working, bootable flash drive (e.g.,
> live persistent Kubuntu 7.10), I clone it easily with a one-liner dd
> command:
> dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdd conv=noerror,notrunc
> (sdc is the working UFD to be cloned; sdd is the empty, identical UFD; you
> can specify any bs=Block_Size other than the default bs=512 (bytes); etc.,
> as you probably already know :) )
> That copies everything, including the boot mechanism (e.g., GRUB in MBR of
> sdc pointing at the installed OS on sdc) => sdd is ready to boot.
>
> --
> failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702
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