On 02/27/2012 06:06 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
And dd gives you access before, in between and after the partitions...
and if it is just a copy of 'files' on a partition or drive-to-drive (on the local machine) without the MBR or partition boundary information, good 'ole: cp -a works just fine. I like Carl's rsync solution, but personally if I were going to copy my / to another drive and I wanted to make it a bootable replacement for the current drive, I would use 'dd'. That way you could copy the MBR, etc. and simply swap drives and boot back to what you have. gparted works well for copying entire partitions from drive-to-drive as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org