Re: Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the partition is large enough

Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-19 Thread Cam Ellison
Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: 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

Re: Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
You might want to look at the Disk Upgrade mini How-To. Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the Hrad Disk Upgrade Mini How-To claim about this or very similar one that Previous versions of the

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
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

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: This command will take care of duplicating everything including device files and permissions: find source dir -mount | cpio -dumpv target dir I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that I want to move my system onto. (Currently my system

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:53:29PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: This command will take care of duplicating everything including device files and permissions: find source dir -mount | cpio -dumpv target dir I have a (bigger)

** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Bill
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

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
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 ( cd old-mount-point ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd new-mount-point ; tar xf - ) HTH Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Crafter
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, 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 Well, this depends on what you *really* want to do. From above it sounds like you want to

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Thomas Guettler
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 man dd -- Thomas Guettler Office: guettli_NoSpam_interface-business.de

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcello Mezzanotti
Thomas Guettler wrote: 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 man dd -- Thomas Guettler Office:

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: Thomas Guettler wrote: 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,

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcello Mezzanotti
Nico De Ranter wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: Thomas Guettler wrote: 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,

Copying a partition, was Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Well I wouldn't call man dd a safe way of doing this unless you mean you want to make a bit for bit copy of the disk.

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
, August 17, 2000 4:08 PM Subject: Re: ** Emegancy Request ** 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 ( cd old-mount-point ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd new-mount

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf! Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu). ( cd old-mount-point ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd new-mount-point ; tar xf - ) With this line, you do not have to worry about disk space, as long as the

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
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 ( cd old-mount-point ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd new-mount-point ; tar xf - ) For some reason that I do not

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
( cd old-mount-point ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd new-mount-point ; tar xf - ) Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use tar to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug. I do not know that bug, and I am not aware of any, as I am using tar this way

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the Hrad Disk Upgrade Mini How-To claim about this or very similar one that Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use tar to copy the

Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Dan Griffiths
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the Hrad Disk Upgrade Mini How-To claim about this or very similar one that Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also