Very Computer

Yes, I have been beating this around all day doing repairs to a crashed (lost
a drive) system.......
try
mount </dev/blah> /mnt
find / -xdev -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /mnt

sean
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Hello.....

I'm wondering whether we can just copy the whole content of a disk onto another
disk coz I'll be doing a lot of Linux installation and I'm trying to find a
way to reduce the time.

Thanx in advance.

You can copy one raw device to another:

cp <source raw device> <destination raw device>

This should create a destination disk with the source disks boot
blocks, linux partitions, DOS partitions ;-), swap partitions, ie.
a disk image.

This should work for both IDE and SCSI disks with the same geometry.
It will work for any combination of IDE and SCSI. It should even
work with different size drives with the obvious contraints of
potential inconsistency.

[...]

Quote:>You can copy one raw device to another:

>cp <source raw device> <destination raw device>

>This should create a destination disk with the source disks boot
>blocks, linux partitions, DOS partitions ;-), swap partitions, ie.
>a disk image.

>This should work for both IDE and SCSI disks with the same geometry.
>It will work for any combination of IDE and SCSI. It should even
>work with different size drives with the obvious contraints of
>potential inconsistency.

I have two IBM 1GB Deskstar XP drives, one IDE and one SCSI.  It sounds
like you are saying that if two partitions are the same size (is even
that necessary?) I will be able to use 'cp' under Linux to copy
everything from one partition to another, NO MATTER WHAT THE FILESYSTEM
ON THE FIRST PARTITION.  This sort of "universal copy" could be very
useful to someone who is experimenting with different file and
operating systems.  Could you verify this, and maybe go into it a bit
deeper?
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John Brock