Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

[Lubos Vrbka <lubos.vrbka@gmail.com>]

Brian C wrote:
> Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands 
> below will destroy your data. Read on...
>
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > - if you want to leave bad data behind
> >
> > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
>
>
> HERE IT COMES
>
> >     tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
just watching the thread for the first time... don't know what was this 
tar command supposed to do
tar 	
	c	create archive
	v	be verbose
	p	preserve attributes, no effect here, applies only during etraction
	f	put the archive to file whose name is following the command, in this 
case old-disk-partitions
		and take the inputs from /mnt/new-disk

wouldn't something like
find source_dirs -xdev | cpio -pvm dest_dir
work better?

in case of tar, probably something like
cd src_dir; tar c * | (cd dest_dir && tar xpv)
might also work fine

regards,

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Lubos
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