I am sure you must have created file system on hdb1. I have used recursive cp command to transfer data from older to newer hdd quite a few times.
My pwd in the following example is "home' on new hdd. I have mounted old "home" partition on hd2. # cp -rp /hd2/deval/* /deval/ copied all the data in my old home directory to new home directory preserving all the file permissions. Vijay "Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri ." wrote: > My hdd was giving a problem and it's still within the warranty period,so I > decided to get it changed. My present disk geomerty is as follows: > > hda1 / > hda5 /home > hda6 swap. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
