Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-17 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:53:09 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > btw, the best cp command for the job is cp -Ra (a for archive - maintain > all permissions - do this as root to maintain uid/gid of other > users/groups). Thanks for pointing out why "cp -r" is unacceptable. Just my added 2c... the -R i

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10 January 2011 05:21, Hal Vaughan wrote: >Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?   >For example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create >an archive of just the files? Is there a reason why dump and restore won't fill the bill?

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Monday 10 January 2011 21:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Hi, Hal: > > > > On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of > >> data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partit

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is th

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data > on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 > GB. I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy > a

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less).  Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB.   > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD.  Is there a way to copy an > image o

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data > on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is > 5 GB. I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy > an image of just the files from one drive to another? In the cas

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:21:22PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an > ima