Jimmy Thomson wrote:
>
> this may be a bit off topic, but can anyone recommend a piece of software
> that I can boot off of a floppy and that can clone one hard drive to
> another? I don't need the ability to network clone them, I just want to
> be able to take an existing drive (that is developing some bad blocks) and
> blow it over to a new drive.
>
> Thanks :)
Take the rescue floppy of your dirstribution, boot it and use tar like
this:
root# mkdir /mnt{,/{hda1,hdb1}}
root# mount -t ext2 /{dev,mnt}/hda1
root# mount -t ext2 /{dev,mnt}/hda2
root# tar cfp - -C /mnt/hda1 . | tar xfp - -C /mnt/hda2
Marc
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Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
