On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:54, Seth Mos wrote:
> May I suggest the following procedure for copying disks and information...
Why it should be better?
Doing 'cat' I have perfect copy of disk.
You think that I will get lower latency with your scenario?
> partition the second disk similar to your first.
> Mount these partition under something like /mnt/new
> And the other partitions underneath that... eg.
> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/new
> mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/new/usr
>
> After completing this procedure you can transfer the data.
>
> (cd /;tar -cf - .)|(cd /mnt/new;tar -xf -)
And all my ACLs go to hell :)
BTW try to do it with NTFS partition :(
> This will give you all files on the second disk. However you must reinstall
> lilo on this disk since it will not be in the same place anymore.
These disks are not used for booting, OS etc.
> Not it should not be enough to make it that severe. I suspect the dma issue.
As I said earlier, they have DMA enabled.
Regards,
Olaf
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