On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 14:47, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I need a fast hard disk copy tool, and am looking for suggestions. > > I have a hard drive partition with 170GB of data in it. I want to copy > the data into a partition (made with more inodes) on another drive. > > Of course, since I am changing the file system on the target, I > cannot do a simple dd for an exact copy of the partition. A long time ago, I believe I used tar with cpio to copy large amounts of data from a Vax 11/780 over multiple serial connections to a SCO unix box. Not sure how fast this would be for you but it might do the job for you. I setup one end to grab the data and send to the port and on the other system I had a job that grabbed from the port and dumped it into the file system. Check out the man page for cpio. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
