Unix disk copy using dd

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu May 3 13:01:56 CDT 2007


M H Stein wrote:
> Assuming you have a third disk or a spare partition on the larger drive,
> can't you tar the small disk > to a file there and then untar to the final
> disk/partition?

You're assuming that the small disk the data is coming from contains a 
file system.

And, if it does, it's more efficient to use a pipe instead of a tarfile.

Peace...  Sridhar


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