On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:33:17 +0200, Frédéric Massot
<frederic AT juliana-multimedia DOT com> wrote:
> Josh Malone a écrit :
>> When I did this last time I just used dump (on Linux).
>> 
>> mke2fs -j /dev/newdisk
>> mount /dev/newdisk /mnt/newdisk
>> ummount /dev/olddisk
>> cd /mnt/newdisk
>> dumpe2fs -a0f - /dev/olddisk | restore -rf -
> 
> I think you intended to write "dump -a0f" command from the dump Debian
> package.  :o)

On RHEL5 the main binary is dump, and dumpe2fs seems to be a wrapper
bin... not sure. Anyway, 'dump -a0f -' should work fine.

And yes... this will take a long time but will handle hardlinks properly.

-Josh

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