[H-GEN] Coping one h/d to another

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, dash wrote:

> There might be any point for persistence but it does work though AFAIK
> using dd at least

Of course it _will_ work.  However, moving a swap partition with dd is 
entirely pointless and will take probably 100 times longer than using 
mkswap on the new partition.  I can't imagine why anyone _would_ move a 
swap partition using dd[1].

When moving data from one *nix filesysem to another dd is my last choice 
anyway.

I do use dd when moving/backing up non-native filesystems with *nix, as 
was the case for one of the filesystems the original poster mentioned.

When moving data from a native *nix filesystem I'll use xfsdump for 
xfs and tar for just about anything else.

[1] Assuming normal use of a swap partition.  Some OSes drop crashdumps to 
the swap partition.  This is entirely unrelated to the normal use of the 
partition and is only done as the swap partition provides guaranteed 
storage for the crash dump as the system goes down.  It's the volatile 
nature of the swap partition that makes this possible.

Cheers,

Rob

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