On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 01:14, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:55:24AM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: --snip-- > > Oh, Note that you'd be copying a LIVE partition. A logging filesystem > > like ext3 or XFS will take care in writing stuff to the drive in the > > right order. You're screwing that up by just copying over the > > raw drive. > > So rsync would be a better way to go, then. That would avoid that > problem. --snip-- rsync is a very useful tool. I've used it for backing up my drives quite a few times in the past. One thing I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is using 'cp' in parted. Using a partitioning tool to copy partitions sure sounds like a pretty safe bet to me. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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