On 26 Aug 98 08:16:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have gotten a new, larger harddisk, and wish to use it to expand my >existing linux box. I would like to copy the filesystems off the old hard >disk, and replace it with this one. > >So far I haven't succeeded. I haven't been able to confine tar's action to >a single filesystem (so that directories linked to directories on other >filesystems, on the other system drive, will not be copied. Included is the >linux boot filesystem, /dev/hda2. I basically want the current drive >duplicated to the new drive, with larger partitions, and another partition. > >When I thought I had it right, and edited /etc/fstab using a rescue disk, >the disk failed somehow. > > My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked >directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job >successfully.
Try this method, which copies the root filesystem to another partition (already mounted on /mnt). cd / find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt This should answer both your questions. It handles device files okay and doesn't recurse down other devices (but does copy the mount points for you). Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..." ----------------------= (send replies to rob@)
