> > tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs > > somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your > > new, blank, drive. > > It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses > stdout, you need the -f option to use a file, so you can copy a partition > with > > tar -cl /source | tar -xC /dest/
...or you could use this: (cd /original_folder && tar -clpsf- *) | (cd /new_folder && tar -xpsf-) ...courtesy of http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother I've used this successfully, and it's fairly quick... <shrug> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
