On Monday 10 November 2003 10:37 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Anne Wilson escribió: > > On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: > >>It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to > >>make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is > >>/dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command should > >>work: > >> > >>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > > > I've heard people recommend this before, but I'm not sure why this is > > better than cp -a ? I do remember that the last time I tried to copy > > a whole directory to a new partition I had some problems before I got > > it right, so I want to be clear before I start. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html > suggests to use cp -a > I used that howto many times (either to recover from disk failure or to > prepare a copy of the current distribution to a different partition > before an upgrade) and I found it very useful. > > Bye I recently upgrade from hdb being a dvd reader and hdc a 5 gig, and hdd a cdwriter, to a dvd writer at hdd and a 120 gig at hdc, in MDk 9.1. I plugged in the drive to the case, and I started the computer, fired up MCC, went to diskdrake and told it the change, and that I wanted to make a 45 gig /var/www. it asked if I wanted what was now in my /var/www copied over (of course I did, and it did fine), and I now have a separate /var/www from /var. have you just tried to see if you can just do it with out thinking about it and using the gui?
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