Hello All I am not sure that I understand what the original poster wishes to achieve, nor have I followed the lengthy discussions that ensued.
But, a thread with the above subject line would not be complete without a mention of "mirrordir". Someone wrote: > > Sigh... and I was hoping for a simple solution like cp /mnt/disk1/* > > /mnt/disk2/ Try apt-get install mirrordir mirrordir /mnt/sourcedisk /mnt/targetdisk Everything including soft links, hard links, devices files, fifo's, permissions etc, will be mirrored, with a minimum of changes on the target disk. Mind that you do not mix up the "source" and "target" paths, otherwise you will end up wiping your original drive. If you want to "ghost" a complete linux file system to replace a small drive with a larger one, the recipe is this: - power down and install the target disk on secondary port, reboot. - partition target disk (fdisk, cfdisk). - create file systems (mkfs) and swap partion (mkswap) on the target disk. - mount the target disk on /mnt - create and mount points and mount other partitions on target drive (eg mkdir /mnt/boot, mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/boot). - change into single user mode (init s) - mirror the drive, "mirrordir --exclude /mnt -exclude /proc / /mnt" (These excludes save a lot of trouble) - mkdir /mnt/proc, mkdir /mnt/mnt (This also save a lot of problems later). - power down and remove original disk - reboot with the target disk mounted as root / using an external recovery disk. - run install-mbr to put a boot record on the target - run lilo to make the target bootable. - reboot. The original poster could probably achieve what he wants by running the "mirrordir" statement from crontab every 24 hours. Have fun Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
