How could I have missed that! I scrub LJ from cover to cover. I'm getting old.... I was going to recommend Norton's Ghost 6.2, but your suggest is vastly superior. JLK On Tuesday 27 February 2001 10:10, tabanna wrote:
"Donald G. Knecht"
most kindly told me :- okay here it is:(from Linux Journal December 2000 Issue 80, pg.16)
"Wanna make a clone of one hard disk to another? Use tar. Hook up your soon-to-be-cloned hard disk to your system (power off during this operation). Boot your box. As root, cd to /. Mount the new hard drive on /mnt. Then run the following command: $ tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) c = create l = stay on local filesystem ( don't cross filesystem boundaries ) f = file ( the next argument is the name of the tarfile or "-" ) - = write to standard out or read from standard in x = extract v = verbose "umask 0" ensures that the new files have the same permissions as the old ones."
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