[wellylug] Fw: wlug feedback
Volker Kuhlmann
kuhlmav at elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jul 22 14:21:12 NZST 2001
> TAR is your friend :) Tar up the file system and then untar it onto your new
> drive, update fstab and lilo.conf. Execute lilo and your system is up an
> running on a new HDD :)
>
> tar -cf - /old/mnt/point/* | tar -xf -
>
> Think that will work
Arrrrggghhhh, please think again and pay special attention to -p and
--numeric on the extraction side.
Besides, rsync is probably a much wiser choice:
rsync -auvH /mnt/old /mnt/new
check copying of sockets and pipes is correct or whether you need more
options for that.
Volker
.-. Wellington
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