Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?
You could also instead of using tar, which will create a large backup file,
just use cp -Rdp /old /new
Cheers,
Jason.
> From: Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:10:09 +0200
> To: Kevin Cobb <kcobb@east.delfin.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-Date: 12 Jun 2000 13:10:59 -0000
>
>> Kevin Cobb wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the Linux
>> 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then come up on
>> drive 2?
>
> How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting
> the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and then issuing as
> root:
> % cd /old
> % tar cvf /new/backup.tar *
> % cd /new
> % tar xvf backup.tar
>
> IIRC that should preserve file ownerships, file permissions, and
> symlinks ... but than again, I've never done it myself.
>
> MfG Viktor
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