Shawn Fertch wrote: > The cause for replacing the drive is that the root ( / ) partition has > marked itself as read-only. Doing fsck's and rebooting is no longer > correcting the issue. In doing a dd from one drive to the other, is > there a chance that whatever is marking the partition read-only will > be brought over as well? Could you just install the OS on the new disk, mount the old disk and just copy over the directories that you need (/etc, /home). Then you could try to "fix" the old disk (and learn) without worry. If you can find out *why* the partition is marked read-only then I think fsck can help you. I don't remember how much diagnostic info fsck gives, but I know it can be cryptic. Post it and let's see! -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list