From: Steven Elling <ellings@kcnet.com> Subject: Re: failing scsi drive Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:10:14 -0500 Message-Id: <200210211918.13907.ellings@kcnet.com>
On Monday 21 October 2002 11:46, Duane Attaway wrote:
> If you copy a 1.2GB drive to a 8GB drive this way, your new 8GB will be
> recognized as a 1.2GB drive. And it will stay that way until you change
> the partition table to reflect the old cylinder/head/sector counts. The
> only limitation is that you can't exceed the physical capacity of the
> drive. It will blow chunks of seek errors if you do.
I've seen a combination of tar and cpio used to transfer a file system from
one drive to another.
It was something along the lines of:
tar -cf - /path | cpio | tar -xf - /mnt/newdrive
I can't remember exactly how is was done or why it was done this way.