3 May
2007
3 May
'07
4:28 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
M H Stein wrote:
Enering pedant mode, even if the source disk has a filesystem, tar
can't grab boot blocks, partition tables, extended attributes, etc. And
various tar implementations have other nasty little warts.
dd is about the dumbest** command on the planet, which is why I love it.
Doc
** as in does what it does, does that thing only, and does that thing
Very Fricking Well.
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.