On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:43:59PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. > I wouldn't want to use NFS for this task. It's designed for file sharing, > not for file transfer. > good point. > > You can then transfer a partition with > > tar clf - -C <partition> . | ssh 192.168.2.<other> tar xpf - -C <dest> > > I wouldn't use `dd' because you'd then end up copying the empty parts of the > partition as well, and you're forced to use the exact same size, etc... > excellent solution (one of many, I know). I learned something here. just for the record, I know dd is a bad solution, but I figured the really simple solution using dd would make some sense in that when He started playing with the setup, he'd have a good, easy recovery option. Especially with that windows junk in the way... A
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