[gentoo-user] My HD is collapsing

2003-09-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, Every day I get more signs that my HD is collapsing. Tomorrow I'll have to go to the store and buy a new one. So I'll have to copy the old HD to the new HD. I have no time to investigate how to do it properly so I need your help. First question: Can I do it while using the system or do I

Re: [gentoo-user] My HD is collapsing

2003-09-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Why would I use tar, Whats wrong with 'cp'? Yuval Scharf On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Holger Kettler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, First question: Can I do it while using the system or do I have to boot from a CD? You should mount every single partition readonly

Re: [gentoo-user] My HD is collapsing

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:12, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, Every day I get more signs that my HD is collapsing. Tomorrow I'll have to go to the store and buy a new one. So I'll have to copy the old HD to the new HD. I have no time to investigate how to do it properly so I need your

Re: [gentoo-user] My HD is collapsing

2003-09-08 Thread Holger Kettler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why would I use tar, Whats wrong with 'cp'? Its your choice in the end. Just conservative reasons. For some time, cp was not able to handle ie sparse files correctly. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] My HD is collapsing

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:41, Jason Stubbs wrote: With Win95/98 I was able to xcopy /s /e c:\*.* d:\*.*, move d:\ to c:\, boot from a floppy and then sys c:\. That may or may not work in WinMe. Make that xcopy /s /h -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list