Re: Copying one hard drive to another
--- Bryan Andersen <bryan@visi.com> wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >
> > I am just curious :-) (No flames against cpio)
> >
> > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote:
> > > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1?
> > > >
> > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
> > > > cd <mountpoint of /dev/hda1>
> > > > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
> > >
> > > This is the preferred method to copy partitions. Some files
> don't
> > > copy properly with cp or tar, and dd dosen't deal with different
> > > partition sizes. In general dd is bad due to bad blocks. Many
> > > new disks remap out bad blocks, but they still can develop over
> > > time and not be mapped out by the HD's internal controller.
> >
> > Hi can you enlighten us who uses "tar". What files "tar" can not
> but
> > "cpio" can copy? Are those arguments true for GNU tar?
> >
> > pipe, softlink, hardlink, device nodes,...????
>
> Named pipes and files with holes in their block allocation.
>
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> |
>
I get lazy and tend to use Midnight Commander (mc) to copy partitions.
I havn't had any problems to date, but is this bad practice?
How does mc do its copying anyway?
Tks,
Patrick.
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