Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt > it supports the ext2 filesystem.
With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via "cp -a", so tar is not needed (if one can mount both partitions simultaneously). There is also a mini HOWTO to this subject called /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.* Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>