Greg Wright wrote:
> Look in the archives for various answers....but
>
> cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy
> everything, cannot comment on flaws though...
This would indeed copy the disk. But your new 40 GB disk would magically
become a 10 GB disk!, and the only way to recover the missing space
would be to reformat the disk. Not sure if that counts as a flaw though
:-) This method really best works on identical disks.
david wrote:
> cp doesn't keep permissions, I learned this the hard way...
You will notice that the copy command he was using specified raw devices
rather than a filesystem. In that case, cp does in fact preserve
everything. In fact, there is no need to partition the new disk, because
cp will create and copy over all the partitions, including extended
partitions. This includes Linux, boot, and swap partitions, and even
Windoze partitions. I do this on a semi-regular basis. But again, it
really only works well on identical disks.
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 8/01/01 at 19:02 cmead wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm using 6.2, I have a 10GB hard drive which is partitioned in half first
> >5 GB is / the other half is /home. The box is our server which i use for
> >DNS, Samba, Netatalk, Masq, printing...so for me alot of work went into setting
> >this up it runs perfectly :)
> >
> >My question, is I want to upgrade to a new much bigger hard drive over 40GB.
> >Is there a *flawless* way to just plug in the new drive and copy everything
> >over and then remove the old drive? So i could use as a back up in case this
> >new one ever goes down.
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