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On 9/01/01 at 9:45 Peter Peltonen wrote:
>Duane Clark wrote:
>
>> Greg Wright wrote:
>> > cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy
>> > everything, cannot comment on flaws though...
>
>> 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.
>
>This sounds good. What about a target disk that has already partitions in
>it?
>Will cp write over them?
>
>Just thinking about keeping a backup disk in the machine and writing
>everything there once in a while... Does one have to fdisk it to empty
>before
>copying?
Try it, I do not use cp like this, but switches like -R -f will probably
take care of anything
There are also apps around for partition resizing if need as mentioned by
others
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