On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > symlinks, etc).
partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, format (mkfs) and mount the new drive. tar cf top_level_dirs; (cd /new_drive_monut_point; tar xpf -) Probably need special provision for /dev (like cp -R) and you should not copy /proc, lost+found. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251 USA Phone: 781.279.4513
