Brian Dockter wrote:
> I've always used cpio for copying/moving entire file systems (although I
> haven't yet
> needed to on Debian yet). A command such as:
>
> find / -xdev -depth -print | cpio -pdm /mnt
>
> should also do the trick.
I just hate replying to my own messages, but I caught a
Brent Buchholz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:56PM +, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> > The /dev/hda1 files were copied over with:
> > cp -xa * /mnt with /dev/hdd2 on /mnt
>^
> Two things I don't like about that: globbing and cp itself. I moved / with a
> tar pipe.
>
>
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:56PM +, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> The /dev/hda1 files were copied over with:
> cp -xa * /mnt with /dev/hdd2 on /mnt
^
Two things I don't like about that: globbing and cp itself. I moved / with a
tar pipe.
"cd /mnt"
"tar lO / | tar cvvf -"
>
A 54 Gig drive has been installed and Winswish & Linux paritions made,
in preparing for a complete shift to the new disk. This is a udma66
Western Digital, but being driven off the old controller on an ASUS
mother board, with a BIOS upgrade supporting the big disk.
The new Linux root partition is a
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