On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 2:18 am, et wrote: > 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?
I never thought of the gui, et. I used cp -a when I needed to move /var to a new partition. Life is extremely complicated here atm, so I'm hoping it will last out a few more days as there is no chance of getting/installing a new drive before that. And I haven't even tested the fan theory yet. I'll let you know what happens. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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