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Re: Moving a linux to a different hard disk
I am not going to start this huuuuuuuuge discussion of what's good or not,
and is free everything which is important or not. (and pqmagic is NOT free).
I can only say this - I have had serious disk problems the last week, and I
ended moving and resizing my partitions over 10 times each, and that
includes linux partitions, and that includes moving them disks, and moving
them on the same disk from one spot to another, and enlargin and reducing
size of partitions - and it all worked great - no problems whatsoever.
my 2 cents...
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net>
To: Linux-IL <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: יום שני 01 פברואר 1999 23:02
Subject: Re: Moving a linux to a different hard disk
>Amos Shapira writes:
>
> > I agree with you about this one - if he just have to copy the data
> > from one Linux partition to another then he can use "cp -a".
> >
> > |> how to move/copy them, even between different Hard Drives. And it
supports
> > |> FAT, FAT32, NTFS,HPFS, Linux ext2 and Linux Swap.
> > | I trust to cp command more than all this fat point-n-click
> > |programs sources of which I don't seen :)
> >
> > Uhmm..... have you read every line in the sources of cp and the
> > libraries it uses? Have you checked every source code of every other
> > program you run on your computer? What about your BIOS - do you trust
> > it?
>
>But he was right in regard to this particular program (Partition
>Magic), although he might not have meant it. The last issue of the
>Linux Journal had a review of this product, and it reported that PM is
>buggy. During my usage of PM (and especially PM 4) I also noticed that
>it's notably not polished. Consider that bugs in this kind of program
>are much more dangerous than in other programs. It not just something
>that would compel you to reload Netscape again. I trust cp and Linux
>much better than PM, after my own experience and especially after the
>bad review.
>
>
>--
>Alex Shnitman
>alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
>http://alexsh.hectic.net
>
>