On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Thor wrote: > ... > > Speak for cloning a single partition then i suggest a simple > > 'cp -ax /mount_point_of_original_parition /mount_point_of_target_partiton' > > the 'a' stand for archive (recursive and same permission) > > and with the 'x' the copy don't go out the indicated filesystem. > > you can find the same suggestion in How-To/Large-Disk > > The disadvantage of this command is that it doesn't preserve hardlinks. > So you can end up using a lot more diskspace than before, as I learned > the hardway when moving my debian mirror to a new disk:) To avoid this problem use "find . | cpio -padm /target" -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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