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Re: Copying one hard drive to another



On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:16:45AM -0700, patrick q wrote:
> 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?

Hi, MC does good job copying most staff.  Press F1 for explanation.
Basically it is configurable and default works fine for most staff
(file/directory/softlink/hardlink,....) but I do not know for naamed
pipe etc.

I almost use MC as shell.

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