On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Froberg, David C wrote: > Thanks, John. > > The --root is more to the point. (Sorry, I should have done a man rpm > first.) > > With copying with dd, would the command like something like: dd > if=/dev/dasda1 of=/dev/dasdb1 ?
;-) man dd I'd add bs, but it mght not matter on your mainframe. Actually, I think cp will work too: cp /dev/dasda1 /dev/dasdb1 cp has an option to create sparse files - it omits big blocks of binzry zero, and seeks past them on output. I use the cp command to write floppy images to floppy. Not relevant to your immediate needs, but you can dd if= | ssh ... dd of= # to copy between systems tar cC .. | ssh tar xpC... # ditto cp /dev/dasda1 dirty-big-file cp dirty-big-file /dev/dasda1 I used the dirty-big-file trick to copy a disk from one computer to another a while ago. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
