On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:14:20 2003 > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > > > Well, I think that's the reason to use dd. I just want to clone the > > drive and not have to partition the drive first. > > > > > > -- > > Bill Moseley > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > There have been endless discussions about this on various linux groups, and > the consensus is that dd is not a good idea for this. > > I've tried both ways to clone a linux system and only had failures with dd. > > > You can do a perfect job (in my present working > experience with cp -a. Got a box right next to this one with the same exact > system on it. > > About the symlinks that Ron mentions, I really don't know. Just have my own > experience to draw on. I guess if what you were cloning wasn't self-contained > that would be something to deal with. Something for a little shell script > after everything else was done, if it was me.
If, say, /var, /etc and /usr are in the / partition, then "cp -a" will work fine, but because there tend to be many symlinks between /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks. If there's a little shell script that can handle multiple symlink redirection, I'm not smart enough to think of it... -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
