On Monday 21 October 2002 11:46, Duane Attaway wrote:

> If you copy a 1.2GB drive to a 8GB drive this way, your new 8GB will be
> recognized as a 1.2GB drive.  And it will stay that way until you change
> the partition table to reflect the old cylinder/head/sector counts.  The
> only limitation is that you can't exceed the physical capacity of the
> drive.  It will blow chunks of seek errors if you do.

I've seen a combination of tar and cpio used to transfer a file system from 
one drive to another.

It was something along the lines of:

tar -cf - /path | cpio | tar -xf - /mnt/newdrive

I can't remember exactly how is was done or why it was done this way.