Have you used smartmon tools ? These actually give me the best results for determining the number of errors encountered by a drive.
The traditional fast way is "dump -f - | restore -f -" [*] but I'm not
>
> Is there a way I can copy everything from one drive to another and keep the
> permissions from a dodgy drive to a working one? cp -ar seems an option, but
> it takes a while!
sure dump handles extended attributes correctly.
Andrew.
[*] The drive should NOT be mounted R/W.
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