>How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting Where to get / how to create such a floppy? (Like a mini-debug-admin-system on floppy; that'd be neat)
>the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and then issuing as >root: > % cd /old > % tar cvf /new/backup.tar * > % cd /new > % tar xvf backup.tar Or you could use "cp -av /old /new 2>>/cp-err 1>>/cp-msgs" after having mkfs'd and mounted the new drive. Then check cp-err and cp-msgs after it's done. You could probably also use rsync if you have that installed. HTH Sven