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2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var

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2004-05-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. > > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > > without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var /what

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-20 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Team: > > I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to > another. While cp would probably do fine, others have suggested using tar > or some other tool that is more robust for performing the copy. > > Any sugges

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Doug MacFarlane said... I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to another. [...] Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? I've done it using cpio(1), since

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
"Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > without the intermediate tar file? Copying a filesystem is a fairly time consuming task, but only initially complex. Fortunately, there is a HOWTO. http://ursine.ca/cgi-

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Doug MacFarlane said... > > I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to > another. [...] > > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > without the intermediate tar file? I've done it using cpio(1), since tar didn't