Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-11 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-11 11:19:02, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > This works quite well, I just tried it. However, I got missed up > when it didn't copy symlinks properly. I had a link /var/somedir to > the directory /var/SomeDir, and instead of copying the link, it > copied the whole directory so that I had to ide

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-11 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 02-Mar-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: >> On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: >> >> > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want >> > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, >> > symlinks, et

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread kmself
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:48:29AM -0600, Brad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works. > > > > man (8) mklost+found for more info. > > Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:48:29AM -0600, Brad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works. > > > > man (8) mklost+found for more info. > > Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Brad
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:25:13AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > So you can't just "mkdir lost+found" and hope everything works. > > man (8) mklost+found for more info. Why not? Checking the source for mklost+found (yes, i actually RTFS ;), all it does is mkdir /lost+found, create a bun

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:15:07AM +, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > Thanks guys for your help. It's up and running and seems > to be working well. I did notice one thing I don't > remember seeing before. I've now got a 67meg file in /proc > (kcore). Is this a real file? If so, how do I get rid

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Thanks guys for your help. It's up and running and seems to be working well. I did notice one thing I don't remember seeing before. I've now got a 67meg file in /proc (kcore). Is this a real file? If so, how do I get rid of it? Thanks again MaryK

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:26:57PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems > > > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode > > > > is essentially

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems > > > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode > > > > is essentially a database entry in a

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: transfering to new HDD Date: Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:54:00PM +0200 In reply to:Shaul Karl Quoting Shaul Karl([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: >| > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems > > > (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode > > > is essentially a database entry in a table giving storage location, > > > name, and values

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:25:22PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > >

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > > > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > > > symlinks, etc). > > There used to be a very help

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) > > Ye

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) Yes, that would be more like it. > There's a utility to recreate the lost+foun

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > > symlinks, etc). > > partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, forma

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > symlinks, etc). > > I thought I saw a thread about this, but couldn't find it. > > Can anyone tell me what FM to read to get this going

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > symlinks, etc). partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, format (mkfs) and mount the new drive. tar cf top_level_dirs; (cd /new_drive_monu

transfering to new HDD

2000-03-01 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, symlinks, etc). I thought I saw a thread about this, but couldn't find it. Can anyone tell me what FM to read to get this going? TIA MaryK