Not intending to do a meetoo, but...
my personal favorite is
find . -print | cpio -pdvum
The advantage of doing it this way is that it's portable. It's true that
tar works fine under linux, but most other tar implementations from other
vendors will refuse to copy device files and empty directories.
If you're going to learn one way, then this will work.
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Matt Housh wrote:
=>> I remember seeing a post telling how to do this a few months ago but can't seem
=>> to find it now. Could some one help out?
=>>
=>> I want to copy my old 4 gig scsi drive to a new 10 gug ide drive
=>
=> Though it may not be the best way to do it, I'm personally a fan of
=>something like this:
=>
=> 1. create the partition(s) on the new drive
=> 2. mount it somewhere (/mnt/temp)
=> 3. (cd /old/drive/mount/point && tar cvf - .) | (cd /mnt/temp && tar
=>xvf -)
=> 4. unmount the old drive
=> 5. mount the new drive where the old one was.
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