On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Thor wrote: ... > Speak for cloning a single partition then i suggest a simple > 'cp -ax /mount_point_of_original_parition /mount_point_of_target_partiton' > the 'a' stand for archive (recursive and same permission) > and with the 'x' the copy don't go out the indicated filesystem. > you can find the same suggestion in How-To/Large-Disk
The disadvantage of this command is that it doesn't preserve hardlinks. So you can end up using a lot more diskspace than before, as I learned the hardway when moving my debian mirror to a new disk:) -- groetjes, carel
