Brian C wrote:
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
below will destroy your data. Read on...
Alvin Oga wrote:
[snip]
- if you want to leave bad data behind
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
HERE IT COMES
tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
just watching the thread for the first time... don't know what was this
tar command supposed to do
tar
c create archive
v be verbose
p preserve attributes, no effect here, applies only during
etraction
f put the archive to file whose name is following the command, in this
case old-disk-partitions
and take the inputs from /mnt/new-disk
wouldn't something like
find source_dirs -xdev | cpio -pvm dest_dir
work better?
in case of tar, probably something like
cd src_dir; tar c * | (cd dest_dir && tar xpv)
might also work fine
regards,
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