Re: copy old drive to new drive

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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've used an inline tar command quite a bit for this kind of stuff...

 (cd <mountpoint 10GB fs> ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd <mountpoint of 120GB fs> ; tar xvpf - )


This also implies that you can have your 10GB and 120GB file systems mounted at the same time.

Earl


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