Read-Only file system

[Gigadafud]

Okay I finally broke down and decided to upgrade my Series 2 TiVo. Got the MFStools 2 and did not make it very far.

My plan is just to replace the 40 gig drive with a 120 gig drive.

hda - 80 gig sata drive (windows c drive)
hdb - nothing right now
hdc - tivo 40 gig drive
hdd - cd rom

booted in with the cd, did

mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

at which i get the output

/mnt/dos/tivo.bak: Read-Only file system

So i am not sure what I have wrong here but was wondering if someone could please point me in the right direction here? Thanks in advance.

[funtoupgrade]

Sounds like your primary hard drive is NTFS. Mfsbackup wants FAT32 which it can both read and write to.

[HomeUser]

Is your windows drive from XP (NTFS) you need a FAT32 partition. You could create a FAT32 partition on the 120G and use that to create the backup on for transfer to the Windows drive. NEVER BOOT XP with the working TiVo drive installed.

[Gunnyman]

also the various tivo boot disks can't read SATA drives.
So in your case hda isn't your hard drive.

[Gigadafud]

also the various tivo boot disks can't read SATA drives.
So in your case hda isn't your hard drive.


so what ones can? i know that it was recognized in the boot up, it showed both hard drives.

[Gigadafud]

could i put the new drive i want to replace with in as hda, put a giant 120gig fat partition on there and just copy to that? i do not actually have to have a windows drive in there do i?

and once i copy the backup image over to it, yank it out, put it back into my system and copy the image off?



also, has to be FAT and not FAT32 correct?

[Gunnyman]

why not just run mfsbackup and mfsfrestore with a | (pipe)?
the command to do this is:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdZ
the XZ here is dependent on where your IDE devices are plugged in
I've never made a backup since I put the original drive in a drawer when I'm done.
If something happens to that drive, a 20 dollar instantcake download has you new software.

[Gigadafud]

why not just run mfsbackup and mfsfrestore with a | (pipe)?
the command to do this is:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdZ
the XZ here is dependent on where your IDE devices are plugged in
I've never made a backup since I put the original drive in a drawer when I'm done.
If something happens to that drive, a 20 dollar instantcake download has you new software.


so i am assuming that command just creates teh backup and restores it right from old drive to new drive and restores also?

is so, that would be pretty easy then. i would still not mind having the backup on a cd or dvd for just in case though.

[Gunnyman]

correct
I backed up/restored my dad's pretty full 40 hr to a 250 gig took about hour.
A tip for a speedier process, put the two hard drives on two separate IDE controllers rather than master/slave off of one.
also check the weaknees interactive guide at the top of this forum. Explains EVERYTHING.

[Gigadafud]

correct
I backed up/restored my dad's pretty full 40 hr to a 250 gig took about hour.
A tip for a speedier process, put the two hard drives on two separate IDE controllers rather than master/slave off of one.
also check the weaknees interactive guide at the top of this forum. Explains EVERYTHING.


now with that process, it is dumping EVERYTHING on the drive over or just the main file structure and the tivo gui?

[Gunnyman]

recordings and everything

[Gigadafud]

recordings and everything


excellent!!

so essentially, i boot to the cd, all i have to do is run

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdZ

where x is old tivo drive and z is new drive correct?

[Gunnyman]

yep but read thru that weaknees guide too.