--On Monday, April 16, 2007 10:40 AM -0700 Scott Silva
<ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can set up the partitioning on the new drive, and use your favorite
poison to copy each partition. You can use rsync, cp -a, or tar,
whichever you are comfortable with. If the drives are close in size, you
can usually get away with dd, or G4L if you want something more visual.
dump/restore in a pipeline would be my choice, at least if you're copying
ext2 or 3 filesystems. You can see an example in old copies of the restore
man page:
<http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/restore.8.html>
dump 0f - /usr | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
dump reads through the block device and restore writes through the
filesystem. This will preserve holes in sparse files, because the holes can
be detected in the raw filesystem format.
When dump is mentioned, someone inevitably mentions that Linus disapproves
of dump:
<http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html>
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