Betty:
>> stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1024k
>> dd: reading `/home/stormy': Is a directory
What saved your bacon here is that dd will not read a directory, and it is
NOT meant for what you want to do.
My (FREE) advice:
Do NOT ever use sudo (or root privileges) unless you *REALLY KNOW* what you
are doing.
You would have destroyed /dev/sdc1 if that had worked (although irrelevant
in this case).
You will need to "mount" /dev/sdc1 to a directory for rsync or cp to do its
job.
cp is a cantankerous "mirror-er", rsync will do better and the syntax is
pretty similar.
What you need to do:
sudo mount -text3 /dev/sdc1 /somewhere
rsync -av --progress --delete /home/stormy/ /somewhere
Go get a pizza... :)
BE CAREFUL with the SLASH (/) at the end of /home/stormy
As it is, it means "copy everything INSIDE /home/stormy to /somewhere"
Without it, it means "copy /home/stormy (the directory) to /somewhere"
If you need a "taylor made" command you can:
a) send me the information of your partitions and directories or,
b) grant me access to your putter and I'll walk you through.
ET
PS: Do NOT ever use sudo (or root privileges) unless you *REALLY KNOW* what
you are doing.
:)
Eric Shubert writes:
> Betty,
> Please use the rsync command as Ed stated.
> rsync (with the -a option in particular) takes care of some "gotchas"
> that the cp command can sometimes produce if you don't remember how to
> use it just right.
>
> betty wrote:
>> i'm sure i know less than you, the advice was to use dd. is one better
>> than the other?? i'm willing to use whatever will work to copy my home
>> dir to the new computer so that all my settings are the same.
>>
>> what would be the command for cp?
>> thx
>> betty i
>>
>> Eric Cope wrote:
>>> please excuse my ignorance, why would cp -r not work?
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, betty <nicepenguin@webcanine.com
>>> <mailto:nicepenguin@webcanine.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed the new drive into the new computer. I'm going to transfer
>>> the home directory to a usb drive and then to the new computer.
>>> This is the command i tried and the result i got.
>>>
>>> stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1
>>> bs=1024k
>>> [sudo] password for stormy:
>>> dd: reading `/home/stormy': Is a directory
>>> 0+0 records in
>>> 0+0 records out
>>> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000942499 s, 0.0 kB/s
>>> stormy@stormy-desktop:~$
>>>
>>> What is wrong there? i am such an idiot on command line stuff. aghhh.
>>> Thanks.
>>> betty i.
>>>
>>> Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>>> > First, I'd definitely recommend going with a new SATA drive on
>>> the new machine. You'll find everything just works better and the
>>> added reliability of a newer drive makes for a lot less stress
>>> (although regular and frequent backups are definitely the best
>>> peace-of-mind tool).
>>> >
>>> > For the data transfer there are 3 simple options:
>>> > 1) If you have, or can borrow, a large enough USB drive (flash
>>> or HDD), I'd copy everything (I prefer rsync, but dd is a good
>>> choice too) to the USB drive, then copy from that to the new computer.
>>> > 2) Temporarily install the old drive in the new machine on the
>>> ATA (CDROM) interface (if the new machine has an old-style ATA
>>> interface for the CD drives), and copy the data from one drive to
>>> the other (definitely use rsync here).
>>> > 3) Connect the two machines to an ethernet router/hub and use
>>> rsync to transfer the files over the ethernet connection.
>>> >
>>> > However you end up doing the transfer, I'd definitely recommend
>>> retaining a separate backup of all of your personal data
>>> (pictures, documents, music, videos, etc...) as part of the
>>> process, if at all possible.
>>> >
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>>
>>
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