On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> 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 -)
I believe you'll have to pipe the output of the first tar to the second
process:
tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - )
> Probably need special provision for /dev (like cp -R) and you should
> not copy /proc, lost+found.
I typically move one mount point/partition at a time when moving to a
new drive.
There's a utility to recreate the lost+found directory if you do manage
to overwrite it -- it needs to sit on a specific inode for the filesystem
to be able to recover lost clusters properly. RTFM, it's there somewhere.
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