I am trying to do a full backup of my home directory on an SSD drive
with about 70 GB of content via a straight folder to folder copy in
Dolphin.
When I did the copy, the process reported a file could not be read. I
answered Skip and it continued. A short while later it reported
another file could not be read. I answered Auto Skip. Then I went
to bed.
When I woke it, it appeared that the process had completed, but that
only 69 of the 70 GB had been copied, ie there were a lot of
unreadable files.
I pulled the drive from the laptop and installed it into another
working system as a data drive.
The drive is formatted EXT4. It has 3 partitions, /boot, swap and /.
When I run fsck on it, it reports its clean.
[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/boot: clean, 300/150600 files, 178166/610436 blocks
[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb2
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sdb2
[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb3
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/: clean, 1063293/37126144 files, 29660166/37120190 blocks
I ran the process again and tried to nano the files that its reporting
it can't read. Nano can't open them either and they are not binary
files.
Where do I go from here ?
How would I best do a command line copy such that it doesn't stop at
the files it can't read and it creates a log of them ? (What does cp
--force do ?)
Thanks !