Mike Turcotte wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to move a partition from one disk to the other, so I can make > use of more space. What I have done is create a new partition on the other > disk, and just copied all files over. Problem is, my htdocs folder is in this > partition, and contain a lot of hidden .* files. How do I copy those over > along with everything else? I don't use the copy command all that much, what > do I add to "cp -gR"? >
Copiyng files is not good when you move a partition: you get bad files ownership/permissions. You could have used the tar command with the -p option (especially if you have different file systems on each partition), but the best in this case would have been dd: dd if=<input_file> of=<output_file> for instance: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 > TIA, > > Michael Turcotte > Information Systems > City of North Bay > 200 McIntyre St. E > PO Box 360 > North Bay, Ontario > P1B 8H8 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
