On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Chris Purcell wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote: > >>> I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig > >>> hd onto a new 120gb hard drive? > >>> > >>> There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either > >>> like to copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make > >>> a 120gb partition on the new drive and copy that over. > >> > >> I haven't tried it (yet), but I've heard lots of good things about > >> Mondo Rescue - visit http://www.mondorescue.org. > >> > >> Alternatively, mount both drives in your system, boot into single-user > >> mode, and do a dump/restore to the new drive. > > > > I've never tried dump/restore before ever since I read this post by > Linus Torvalds, http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3. Try find and > cpio to copy the drive in single user mode... > > find /old/drive -xdev | cpio -pmduv /new/drive > > Chris > > > > > check this out http://azrael.caltech.edu/shyfire/drivecopy.htm -- -Rene Enriquez rene.enriquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "The devil will find work for idle hands to do!" -The Smiths -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
