On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > Thanks in Advance > Bill
I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the partition is large enough to hold all the data), then: mount /dev/hdxx /mnt mkdir /mnt/mnt mkdir /proc/mnt cp -av /bin /mnt cp -av /sbin /mnt cp -av /usr /mnt cp -av /home /mnt cp -av /dev /mnt The only thing that can't be cp'd is proc, but proc is re-created on the next boot, anyway. I've never had a single problem with this (except when I forgot to mke2fs the drive, and accidentally copied to a vfat partition). But you might be meaning something other than what I'm thinking here... Good luck anyways :) - Brian -- .oO(You know you've been using computers too long when you can actually come up with something that can be abbreviated as "lgtkmozembed") (quoted from GyrosGeie on irc #mashpotato)