[lug] adding a new disk to a system

[D. Stimits]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> 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.

In that case, anything that preserves permissions should work.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> 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.
> >
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