On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:31:04 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs > somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your > new, blank, drive.
It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses stdout, you need the -f option to use a file, so you can copy a partition with tar -cl /source | tar -xC /dest/ I still prefer rsync for this though. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00A: Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
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