Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 2:18 am, et wrote:
On Monday 10 November 2003 10:37 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Anne Wilson escribi�:
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
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