On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Chris Purcell wrote:

> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote:
> >>> I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig
> >>> hd  onto a new 120gb hard drive?
> >>>
> >>> There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either
> >>> like to  copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make
> >>> a 120gb  partition on the new drive and copy that over.
> >>
> >> I haven't tried it (yet), but I've heard lots of good things about
> >> Mondo Rescue - visit http://www.mondorescue.org.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, mount both drives in your system, boot into single-user
> >> mode, and do a dump/restore to the new drive.
> >
> 
> I've never tried dump/restore before ever since I read this post by
> Linus Torvalds, http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3.  Try find and
> cpio to copy the drive in single user mode...
> 
> find /old/drive -xdev | cpio -pmduv /new/drive
> 
> Chris
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check this out
http://azrael.caltech.edu/shyfire/drivecopy.htm


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