-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-08-31 at 17:29 +0530, Arun K. Khan wrote:
Yes, dd will copy the whole device. To copy a specific directory, I would just "cp --archive" or "tar" it to a file on your new HDD as shown below:
cd <to dir to copy> tar -c -S -f - . | (cd <to new dir> && tar -x -p -v -f -)
Remember that Alfred, the OP, already said that tar failed: |> I tried to put it all in a tarball - after 5 days I stopped it. The |> tarballwas 2 GB at that time. He is talking of more than a million files (10^6) in a single directory, each file about 20 Kb. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDFbsGtTMYHG2NR9URAs4AAKCFFIKz12HP2Jm88duhq8bbAdFnLgCbByJu QiC5sR3dDfMTMnOqHOEbcsM= =Muiz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----