> IIRC tar doesn't handle special files, you know, dev's, pipes, stuff
> like that. What you want is dump/restore.
Dump/restore might yield better performance, but tar most certainly does
the job. For example:
# cd /tmp
# tar -cf- -C /dev hda1 | tar -xf-
# ls -l hda1
brw-rw 1 root disk
[1]. Since the
> method described there uses "cp" it's no problem to increase the partition
> sizes.
You can also use tar of the form
tar -cf- -C source_directory . | tar -xf- -C destination_directory .
which should give much better performance than cp if the source and
destination directories are on different drives.
Ian Turner
I have two, maybe three machines - one of which is a laptop - that I would
like to install Debian on.
I know Woody's been frozen, so I'd like to help test the install process
of that (especially WRT the laptop). So my question is - when would the
best time to be to perform this install?
Ian
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