Dotan Cohen: > > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason > that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the > laptop.
What do you want to achieve? Cloning a filesystem that is in use always
has some drawbacks, depending on the method.
If you use LVM: use snapshots. You'll get a dirty filesystem that needs
a fsck, but the result should be consistent.
Otherwise, I would probably use rsync because it might save time if the
copy is interrupted for some reason. Dd will probably yield very
inconsistent results when you use it to copy a filesystem that is in
use.
J.
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