[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[jodys at helluin.org]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:48:52PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> I might add in my O2 as well. But I will have to reinstall IRIX onto a 
> larger drive (I have a 2GB drive and it is REALLY full). Acutally it is 
> funny, right now my O2 only has 2x it's memory for HD space. I wonder if 
> I could just DD from one drive to another (2GB to 9GB).
> 
You can sort of do that. dd will work, though an xfsdump/xfsrestore
pipe is probably a better option. Check out
http://cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/Indy_backup.html
for details.

Jody