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Grant Sewell wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> When I've done this myself I've booted into Knoppix or an Ubuntu Live >> CD. I have then created and formatted the partitions I want on the >> destination drives. I then mount the destination drive under sometime >> like /mnt/new and and the original partition under something like >> /mnt/old. I then copy what I need to copy over to the new drive. >> >> I would use a command line like... >> >> cp -Rv /mnt/old/* /mnt/new Use cp -a instead of -R (to keep permissions and time stamps). Also, -v is not recommended, because you won't see errors for all the output scrolling past. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html