Re: Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > >I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using > >cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the partition is large

Re: Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
You might want to look at the Disk Upgrade mini How-To. > Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > >I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using > >cp - mke2fs the new drive (assumin

Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-19 Thread Cam Ellison
Sorry this is a bit long, but I'm still confused... On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:20:11 -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: >I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives just by using >cp - mke2fs the new drive (assuming the partition is large enough to >hold all the data), then: > >mount /dev/hd

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:53:29PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: > > This command will take care of duplicating everything including device > > files and permissions: > > find -mount | cpio -dumpv > > I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that

Re: Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:38:20AM +1200, Dan Griffiths wrote: > This command will take care of duplicating everything including device > files and permissions: > find -mount | cpio -dumpv I have a (bigger) SCSI disk that I want to move my system onto. (Currently my system lives on a smaller ID

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > Thanks in Advance > Bill I've remapped partitions or even upgraded across drives ju

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > Previous ver

Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Dan Griffiths
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you co

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > Upgrade > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also > use "tar" to c

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
> > ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also > use "tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug. I do not know that bug, and I am not aware of any, as I am using tar this way very often. I have never

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi All, > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > > > Thanks in Advance > > Bill > > > > ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) > For some reason that I do not understand the

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
> If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf! > Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu). >> ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) With this line, you do not have to worry about disk space, as long as the destination drive has enough.

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
y, August 17, 2000 4:08 PM Subject: Re: ** Emegancy Request ** > > Hi All, > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > > > Thanks in Advance > >

Copying a partition, was Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Well I wouldn't call "man dd" a safe way of doing this unless you mean you want to make a bit for bit copy of the dis

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcello Mezzanotti
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Thomas Guettler wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to > > > > mirror >

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > Thomas Guettler wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to > > > mirror > > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permis

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcello Mezzanotti
Thomas Guettler wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > > > man dd > -- > Thomas Guettler > Office: www.i

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > man dd -- Thomas Guettler Office: www.interface-business.de Private: http://yi.org

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Crafter
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Well, this depends on what you *really* want to do. From above it sounds like you want to mi

Re: ** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Simon
> Hi All, > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact > > Thanks in Advance > Bill > ( cd ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd ; tar xf - ) HTH Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x

** Emegancy Request **

2000-08-17 Thread Bill
Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill