Hello, On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Praveen Kumar wrote: > We shall use 'dd' command > > "dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sda5"
This is not a very good idea as all kinds of blocks of zeroes will be copied. > Otherwise we can also use "cp -rvfp source-partition destination partition" > then edit grub and boot. As far as copying the data is concerned using cp is a much better idea, still, using cpio is to be preferred as the links would also be preserved (symbolic as well as hard links). Moreover, some other things have to be taken care of. For example, the /etc/fstab would typically be different. Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
