Re: Exact copy of HD

["Johan A. van Zanten" <johan@kali.ewranglers.com>]

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>I have two HD with almost the same partitions and I have to copy the
>contents of the partitions of the first hd to the partition of the other
>hd.
>
>What is the best way to obtain the best copy (with hard and soft links)?

  I usually use dump and restore to copy filesystems.

Like so:

mount /dev/whatever-target-device-is /mnt
cd /mnt
dump 0f - /source/filesystem | restore rf -


 That's it.  I just tested it under 2.4 on a SPARC 2.

 tar should work, too, but as Mickey pointed out, you have to be very careful
specifying the files in the subdir.

 -johan