On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the > > associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. > > I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower than tar, but it can be > interrupted and resumed.
As mentioned, go with tar if the destination tree is empty. If you have to abort midway, there's still an option to run rsync on it. So you still do save some time. But note that rsync _may_ take up more CPU resource than tar. > You should also note that dd is by far the slowest way of doing this, > partimage is a much better tool for cloning partitions. But one thing about partimage, I tried it once and going from a 10GB partition in partimage to 20GB partition in the new drive, the new drive only still saw itself as 10GB. I had to use partimage to resize and extend it to make it recognise itself as 20GB again. I don't know what happened and it was a long time ago. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:26:39 up 5:45, 4 users, load average: 1.55, 0.89, 0.74 -- [email protected] mailing list
