Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > I have 2 harddrives in my system. The main hd is going bad > and I would like to copy everything to the second and use > that as the main drive. > > Is it possible to copy EVERYTHING to the second hd and just > run lilo on it ? > If so, anyone know all the options to use with cp for this > to work ? (or a complete command line that worked)
I recommend dump/restore. It was made for the purpose. I believe the packet is called simply 'dump'. The process will then be a) partition the new drive b) "newfs" the partition, ala 'newfs /dev/hdb1' c) mount the drive in some place, eg. 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt' d) now move it all over: 'dump 0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)' Note that if you have separate partitions for /usr or whatever these will have to be done separately since dump won't go into other mounted partitions. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
