On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:15 -0400, Prashant Kumar wrote: > How do copy my / containing directory root boot tmp bin > proc etc to a different partition of same disk. > > I used dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda4 but it seems to "hang". > > cp -up could not handle /tmp correctly >
Try probably dd hangs because it copies information with a very small buffer - try appending bs=2048k for example. For cp try '-avx' - this should do the job: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/atmpdisk cd / cp -avx . /mnt/atmpdisk If you wish to copy a live partition - this is the way. If you can afford to get offline for some time - boot a live cd distro (knoppix or SystemRescueCD http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) and use partimage for the copying. -- Martin Spasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
