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Re: unclear cp semantics nuked non-working drive?
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: unclear cp semantics nuked non-working drive? |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:44:40 +1100 |
address@hidden wrote:
>
> Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Ouch!
>
> I wasn't happy, and I'll make more backups in the future. However, my
> most important stuff is safely backed-up on the internet :-)
>
> > (parted) select /dev/hdb
> > (parted) cp 1 /dev/hda 1
>
> Ok. It makes more sense to me now. Apparently, I was in too much
> hurry. Coming from [cfp]disk I wasn't prepared to find something like
> ``select'', maybe also because parted says: ``/dev/hda'' when started
> without arguments.
>
> > Well, if you say /dev/hdb, or whatever, you are explicitly telling
> > it to write to another disk...
>
> I understand. Of course, I didn't imagine writing to other disks
> would be an option...
>
> > So, you think we should change it to:
> >
> > cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR
>
> I definately like this best. If you have ``select''ed hda to do
> partitioning, you'd probably want to copy *to* hda (or at least,
> you're prepared to destroy hda :-)
Done :-)
Andrew Clausen