19 Sep
2001
19 Sep
'01
17:28
1) partition, and make file-system, for your clone-target disk, as you chose 2) go to top or root directory of source disk 3) mount target partition, on, say, /mnt
then , execute :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
No, don't do that. IIRC tar is unable to archive named pipes (fifos) (Just try to tar up your /dev/ tree and unpack it and check the difference). Furthermore, your file timestamps will be messed up. The dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy bs=16k solution should work much better copying even your partition table, lilo boot config, etc., thus really cloning your hd info. Wolly