Copying partitions in terminal mode

[John DeCarlo]

On Dec 18, 2007 11:14 AM, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:

> After digging around in my notes, a book or two, and some websites, I
> came up with this command:
>      cp -aprv  /dev/sda7   /dev/sdc5
>

I would use rsync instead, as it can do compression.  Also, I don't believe
that cp or rsync can use the /dev information to copy anything.

If /dev/sda7 is mapped to /home and /dev/sdc5 is mapped to /home-backup,
then I would use:

rsync -avz /home /home-backup   (and I would do this as root or with "sudo "
in front, to make sure you copy all the files that you might not have
permission to access).

My guess is that you haven't mounted /dev/sdc6 yet, so you would need to do
that.  Create a directory, (sudo mkdir /home-backup), then mount (sudo mount
/dev/sdc5 /home-backup).  Then you will be ready to run the command and have
it back up successfully.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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