[ale] Weird dd error..

[Jay Finch]

At 03:41 PM 04/16/1999 -0400, Mike Fletcher wrote:


>     Jay> I have been reading about how the dd command can be used to
>     Jay> (essentially) mirror data from one hard drive to another.
>     Jay> Well, I bit the bullet, upgraded my hda1 from a 604 MB drive
>     Jay> to a 1.02 GB drive.  Now my 1.02 GB drive is showing up (in
>     Jay> df) as a 604 MB drive!  (The data came out correctly,
>     Jay> however)
>
>         You really should only use dd to duplicate physically identical
>drives.  In your case, even though the drive is 1G, you've copied a
>filesystem which thinks it resides on a 604M device.  You might be able
>to use one of the ext2 editors and increase the size of the filesystem.
>A much better solution would be to use a program like dump or tar to
>move the information over.

         If I want to move over all the data on that drive, what would the 
full tar command be?

cd / ; tar -cf /dev/stdout . | (cd /disk2 ; tar -xf /dev/stdin)

Thanks!
Jay
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