Kenneth Porter wrote: > So I think the correct command is: > > cd /mnt/newdisk > dump 0f - /dev/sda1 | restore rf - Thanks. I tried this, and the copy is working fine. Actually, I backed up to several files, as I have a large IDE disk on my SCSI machine with plenty of space. Nb My old system is in several partitions; the new system is in one, except that I am keeping the old /boot and /home partitions, as well as the swap partition. dump 0f /alfred/slash.dump / dump 0f /alfred/usr.dump /usr ... [for several partitions] mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt cd /mnt restore rf /alfred/slash.dump cd usr restore rf /alfred/usr.dump ... The only issue is that I got thousands of warnings during the restores, like this: restore: lsetxattr ./etc/hotplug/pci.agent failed: Operation not supported I compared the old and new files with "stat" but couldn't see any difference apart from the inode numbers, and the system seems to be working fine. I wonder if this has something to do with selinux (which I have turned off)? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
