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Re: [Fwd: Re: moving contents of hard drive]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Info junkie)
Sun Oct 27 15:10:52 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 09:33:57 -0500 (EST)
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Paul Anderson wrote:
> Message-ID: <32736293.2BEE50ED@agapesystems.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:24:35 -0500
> From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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> To: Mark Shacklette <mshack@mcs.com>
> Subject: Re: moving contents of hard drive
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> >
> In comparision to "dd if=/dev/XXX of=/dev/XXX" the command structure you
> propose seems very complex. dd also gets all files with permissions
> down to the bit level and will not cross mount points. The beauty of
> Unix is that you can dream up ever more complex ways of doing what is
> easily accomplished. However, the orginal mindset of Unix, other than
> for playing games, was to make small tools that were easy to use and be
> compiled into larger tools when that was necessary. And just in case
> you want dd to be a more complex command, there are many switches which
> can be set.
>
I like it; i guess you were trying to say "dd if=/dev/XXX of=/dev/YYY"
where the two devs are different?
e.g
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdc2
[of course /dev/hdc2 has to be equal or larger than /dev/hda3]
cheers
jamal
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