On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:46:40PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: > > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > Same size: dd(1) > > Different sizes: > > mount both drives > cd <dest> && (cd <src> && tar -cf -) | tar -xf - >
Wouldn't cp -o <src mount point> <dest mount point> work better than tar?? (no need for all that temp file space) Pat
