Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:48:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve > > --preserve --same-owner > > may i suggest a less confusing alternative: > > r

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

heya, On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve > --preserve --same-owner may i suggest a less confusing alternative: rsync -a usr/ /spareide it does for most intents and purposes the same thing.

moving fs to new disk using tar

Hi all, I thought I was being very careful, but this didn't work like I'd hoped. Basically I want to move my /usr fs from one disk to another - the first will eventually be repartitioned, to use LVM and ReiserFS. Other filesystems will follow. So I used this command from / (in single user mode -