dd and cp -a

[Karl Larsen]

    I have this computer on /dev/sda and the new hard drive is /dev/sdb. 
This F7 is all in /dev/sda6 and I want to copy /dev/sda6 to /dev/sdb5. I 
tried dd but it failed I think because /dev/sdb5 is smaller 10 GB than  
/dev/sda6 which is 30 GB. It ended with an error message.

    So back to cp -a but there is a hitch. I redid /sdb5 with another 
ext3 file system and I can mount it to /mnt on this computer. So it is 
easy to cp all from /dev/sda6 to /dev/sdb5 but, with a simple # cp -a / 
/mnt it will do all that fine but then want to copy /mnt to the new 
/dev/sdb5.

    Does anyone know a secret that will work? I will read man cp again :-)



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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