[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

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