[ltp] Copying Files

[James Knott]

SOTL wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2004 11:17, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>SOTL wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 06 December 2004 10:55, James Knott wrote:
>>>
>>>>SOTL wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi All
>>>>>
>>>>>I want to copy all files in a partition to another partition.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can I do the following?
>>>>>
>>>>>dd     if=dev/hda5/*     of=dev/hda6/*
>>>>>
>>>>>If not how do I need to modify this or what should I utilize?
>>>>
>>>>I don't think you need the "/*" at the end.  You're copying partitions,
>>>>not files.
>>>
>>>I DO NOT want to copy the partitions but All files located under the
>>>partition hda5 to partition hda6.
>>>
>>>In fact the actual partition itself is what I am trying to get rid of but
>>>I do want the data files.
>>>
>>>Do I use the * to do this or not?
>>
>>If you're copying files, why not use the cp command?  That's what it's
>>there for.  dd is often used to copy entire partitions to or from a file
>>or to convert data in a file.  It is not used as a general file copy
>>program.
>>
>>man dd for further info.
> 
> 
> Things are not quite that simple. 
> 
> I am actively trying to recover data from a partition hda5 can not be mounted 
> so commands that require mounting will not work.

Well, dd might help you, but you'd still be copying the partition and 
not individual files.  You can use dd to pull off individual sectors 
etc., but it's a lot of work.