[ILUG] Drive copying

From: John Mc Donald (johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie)
Date: Wed 20 Oct 1999 - 16:45:39 IST


If I want to make a copy of one ext2 partition to another is mounting
the new drive and old drive and simply typing
    cp -d -R -p -x /mnt/olddrive/* /mnt/newdrive
the best thing to do.

I have a feeling that this will cause problems with read permissions
on a number of files. Is there any utility which I can just pass the
device names of the two filesystems to and it will mirror one
onto the other for example?

TIA,
John.

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