Maybe you're thnking of Ghost. Also, you could make the appropriate partitions on your new drive and then use dump and restore to copy your data over to the new drive, preserving permissions a/m/ctimes and all that. man dump; man restore. Gabe On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:48:01AM -0500, Jacqueline Urick wrote: > I'm getting a new, replacement harddrive for my laptop and I think I > remember seeing some kind of "thing" that allowed you to duplicate the data > from the old harddrive to the new one, so you don't have to re-install > everything. Does anyone know what the "thing" is called? And do they > actually work? > > thanks, > > Jacque > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, SGI Origin Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "There's nothing wrong with keeping your children away from the forces of decay." - Bobbi Dooley