Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

To: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive
From: Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:40:06 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

cd /old-partition-mount ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/tmp ; tar xf -)



What does the dot do?



current directory

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