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Re: HD Upgrade

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Eck)
Thu Oct 24 09:06:40 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 08:05:19 CDT
From: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck)
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If you can mount all the partitions involved (both source and destination)
you can do a simple 

             cp -a /source1/* /destination/.

I've used this method may times to move between IDE and SCSI partitions.



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Hi,

 I've two Hard disks (both with linux partitions). Can I transfer all 
files from these HDs to a new HD without using floopy disk backup? How? 
Sorry my dumb question...

[]s,

Weydson Lima
weydson@elogica.com.br
http://www.elogica.com.br/users/weydson/
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Terry
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Terry Eck                           "Unix is a user friendly OS...
eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com                      it's just choosy about its friends"


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