copying A/UX filesystem from one drive to another...

[Jerry Bass]

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In article <3569 at ux.acs.umn.edu>, pdills at ux.acs.umn.edu (Peter Dills) writes...
>I am interested in copying my filesystem from a Rodime 100Mb SCSI drive
>to a macIIci's 200Mb internal Cobra. I am not sure if I am doing this
>correctly but I tried using "dd" and had ok results. The only problem is
>that the 60Mb that I partitioned for / is not all available, which leads
>me to believe that I should have used "dump" or sothing like that.



	I'm not a Unix expert but, it was explained to me that when you use
dd to copy the filesystem, the partitions of the target drive become the same
as those on the source drive.  This might explain why the remainder of your
60 MB / partition is not available on the target drive.  You should end up
with same same amount of free space that you had on your source drive /
partition.

	You should, however, be able to use silverlining to re-initialize
the MacOS partition to use the remaining free space on your target drive.

	That's the best help I can offer.

	Here's the dd command I've used:


		dd in=/dev/rdsk/cXd0d31 out=/dev/rdsk/cYd0s31 bs=800K

	where X= SCSI ID of source drive  and Y= SCSI ID of target drive

When I did this, the MacOS partitions didn't copy correctly.  When I rebooted,
the target MacOS partition didn't mount (or I was asked to initialize it) so
I started Silverlining, initalized the MacOS partition, set it to automount.
Then I restarted A/UX and dragged the MacOS source drive files to the target
drive.


					Good luck,

						Jerry

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