Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I was thinking to copy each partition to the new /home one at a time, > reformat the original (from NTFS to ext3) and then copy back. That > makes sense to me except for the plain text files (which should be > converted from dos to unix format), but I could do that afterwards. > > It would probably be horrendously slow with cp - what would be a better > way: tar, cpio, or dd, or something else? I'd not expect cp to be significantly slower or faster than tar etc. dd just copys bytes, it does nothing to interpret them as a filesystem, so there's no way for dd to change the filesystem (but it can, for example, copy /dev/hda2 to ~/hda2.img where you can then mount them as filesystems and play with cp, tar and so on. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list