yes, that was just a simple fat32 copy. i use it to do away from installing win9x+apps * 20 machines. its a time saver for me. i was hoping if theres a cp equivalent to copy ext2 fs.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 at 14:48, JohnHomer wrote: >> xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /c /h /e /k > >My goodness. It's been awhile since I've used this. And no, I wouldn't >trade cp for it any day. It's still better than copy, but ... > >> on fat32, for disk dupes works great for me, i dont have to worry bout >> geometry/sizes. > >But you do have to worry about partitioning. Except you normally don't >think of partitioning in Windows so ... > >> if we can get the "cp" equivalents for those switches, then, all will >> be fine, I THINK. > >It really depends on what the objective is. "plug bert" wanted to dupe the >entire disk. He wanted to copy partitioning and data as is. With using >"cp" you (1) have to work out the partitions, (2) have to work out the >creation of the filesystems on the target drive, and (3) have to contend >with varying levels of stability for kernel support of that filesystem. > >Duping an ext2 partition is really no big issue, and I use this to do such >things as shuffle my data around when converting from one filesystem to >another (in my case ext2 -> ReiserFS -> XFS). I use either cp or a >combination of tar commands as in something like: > >(cd / && tar -c root) || (cd /newdir && tar x) > >Or: > >cd /newdir; cp -ax /root .; > > --> Jijo > >-- >Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. >GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> > > >_ >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
