On Fri,15.Aug.08, 06:41:06, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] > The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When > I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is > that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one > and fdisk reported the same information except for size.
AFAIK grub doesn't care about the boot flag (DOS and Windows 9x used to care about it; you could use it to fake a dual-boot system) > I plan to use dar to put the old system on to the new > drive. Will that preserve all the special files? I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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