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Operating Systems Linux SuSE Linux/Ubuntu Mondo/Mindi question, please help... Post 302218166 by mark54g on Thursday 24th of July 2008 02:21:41 PM

07-24-2008

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If you have the ability to do so, you can take a "poor man's" backup of the machine to clone it by putting the other disk into an enclosure (USB or Firewire) and then attaching it to the original machine.

If you can take downtime, drop to single user mode and copy the physical device to the other physical device such as:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

where "if" is the input file (the disk you are copying) and "of" is the output file, the place you are copying it to.

This will copy EVERYTHING from the first disk to the second disk, barring failures or hardware issues. However, it will copy blank space and will take a long time. Figure on about 6hrs easily.

Also, if you accidentally screw up the if and of parts, you will have destroyed your machine (No joke, all data will be lost)

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

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