On Friday 15 August 2008 22:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,15.Aug.08, 06:41:06, Martin McCormick wrote: > > [...] > > > The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When > > I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is > > that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one > > and fdisk reported the same information except for size. > > AFAIK grub doesn't care about the boot flag (DOS and Windows 9x used to > care about it; you could use it to fake a dual-boot system) > > > I plan to use dar to put the old system on to the new > > drive. Will that preserve all the special files? > > I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files > actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev.
There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it works. > > Regards, > Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
