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Re: dd
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:14:21AM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Better partition hdb to suit your needs first (hint: fdisk -l /dev/hda),
> then copy particular partitions. You shouldn't use dd for that, though
> (for the same reason as above). You can use cp -a on each mounted
> filesystem (I used to advocate tar|tar, but on new linux systems cp
> is even better[1]), and manually make the swap partition.
Really? Is it because of the new Linux kernel or because of some
fileutils enhancements? (I like tar|tar... Feels so Unixly elegant)
> --
> believing is seeing
> gaal@forum2.org
> http://www.forum2.org/gaal/
- Adi Stav
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