[lug] adding a new disk to a system

[Hugh Brown]

The name of the "database" program is resumate.  It is writing to a file
and not to a raw partition.  It is a windows app that writes to a samba
share.

Hugh


"D. Stimits"
> 
> "Dhruva B. Reddy" wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't been following this thread that closely, but has anyone suggested
> > using dd to copy from one raw device to another?
> 
> I've suggested that if raw disk access was used for a database, then
> standard copy or even cpio won't work...dd *might* work in that case, if
> the block size on both devices is the same (but might still fail if
> individual inode numbers also had to remain the same...depends on the
> raw access database program). I'm not sure if the original problem
> though involved an exact copy of complete partitions...if so, then dd
> would have some obvious advantages.
>