Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-17 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:53:09 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: btw, the best cp command for the job is cp -Ra (a for archive - maintain all permissions - do this as root to maintain uid/gid of other users/groups). Thanks for pointing out why cp -r is unacceptable. Just my added 2c... the -R is

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10 January 2011 05:21, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?   For example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create an archive of just the files? Is there a reason why dump and restore won't

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Monday 10 January 2011 21:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is

DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? For example, an

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:21:22PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? In the case

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less).  Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB.   I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD.  Is there a way to copy