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To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>
cc: Ben Compton <peabody@naxs.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Disk Copying 
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Last I checked, the biggest problem with this approach is that it will not 
correctly handle certain types of files, such as block/character special files 
in /dev, and sockets. This is why I would recommend dump/restore.

In 
> This is best performed by booting from a floppy disk, and making the new
> partitions on the 4.3gig, and then mounting the Linux partitions on both the
> drives.
> 
> Mount the old partition in /mnt/old, and the new partition in /mnt/new.
> 
> Then:
> 
> (cd /mnt/old && tar cf - .) | (cd /mnt/new && tar xpf -)
> 
> This will use tar to mirror the old partition onto the new partition.
> 
... 
> 
> Neil
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> Neil Blakey-Milner
> nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za
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