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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: good way to add disks?
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> Also, can anyone recommend the best way to move this kind of information
> without losing data?  I was thinking of doing a dump of the entire 
> filesystem on the old drive into a single file on the new one.  My hope
> is that all of the permissions, times, and other amenities will be 
> maintained in this way.  Tar doesn't catch everything.

You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even
making a file system on it.

-- Richard