I've got a working Debian system that I am about to break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32 times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system intact from the old one to the new one so dd is not an option but I want to be sure to preserve all the special files and the boot sector for the new disk.
The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one and fdisk reported the same information except for size. I plan to use dar to put the old system on to the new drive. Will that preserve all the special files? If not for those, ordinary tar would work for everything else? The end result should be the same system as before but with a _LOT_ more space. Thanks for any constructive ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]