-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 18 Nov 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote:
> Peter Weiss writes: > | Hello, > | > | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way > | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one > | without reinstalling all things? > > dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. AFAIK dd can make the copied data useless, when the target hd isn't identicaly to the source hd (and with identicaly I mean it: same geometry and partitioned in the exact same way). ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions it makes no sense to copy them. vfat/winNT partitions seem to me mor tricky (I've never did that) Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODQSeLCGSMW7I2etAQEy4AP9FcR9WVl5vv0WNZni2SGjVv654S9chFFz NkrmQxoYMNqhraqwg/FFL4k/uhx8eU8ny9hJSs86E8hlFi3Fcu1aPk1lthr4Pyz4 PSm6Jg6T+c9VTIIJZ2rZeizi/kZdg25k6CVUk5CA9AimNdimA6xqk3LKrfZVIvSk GbbAaIPzLgQ= =Kg14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
