Thanks Ed for the tip ! While mulling this over I
wondered what would happen when one dd's to a larger
drive. Does the target have to have ext2fs already
on it ? Seems like it doesn't. If the source drive
had only a single ext2fs partition on it the target
drive will have empty space beyond the partition
which could be fdisk'ed, etc ?
Thanks again !
Mike
Ed G. wrote:
...
> drives were identical I simply did a brute force copy from one
> machine to the other:
>
> New Machine 192.168.0.240
>
> nc -l -p 7001 | dd of=/dev/hda
>
> Old Machine
>
> dd if=/dev/hda | nc -w 3 -n 192.168.0.240 7001
>
> Worked like a charm.
