On 11 Aug 99, at 11:44, Gavin Grabias wrote:
> > Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > > larger one and restore the image to the new drive.
> > > > > Another program from them called Drive Copy does a similar thing
> > > > > but you have both the old and the new drive installed and copy
> > > > > from the old to the new one.
> > > >
> > > > I'am sure there is an open source solution. Anybody could got a
> > > > simple way to proceed ? (like cat /dev/hda1 >> /dev/hdb1)
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Assuming you have partitioned the new drive with an identical
> > > partition,
> > > several possibilities come to mind. Assuming hdb1 and a directory
> > > named copy:
> > >
> > > mount /dev/hdb1 /copy
> > > copy -p -x / /copy
> > >
> >
> > i don't know any copy... but cp!
> >
> > and cp -a is better than -p for this task.
> >
> >
> > cu Pixel.
> >
>
> I have always used this:
> exec in working dir.
>
> gtar -zclf - . | gtar -zxpf - -C /target/dir
>
> Maybe this is a bad way to do it but I have used this totally flawless and
> when your building a new server this one is the best
>
> gtar -zclf - . | rsh newserver gtar -zxpf - -C /target/dir
>
A totally different approach...
Why not try Partitioning Magic v4.x ?
(it's a ms dos/windoze app)
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