On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: |>When replicating a system between two partitions, the thing most often |>missed is that you must preserve symbolic links instead of copying them |>as files. It's also important to preserve the ownership and permissions |>of files, and obscure things like the setuid bits, character and block |>special files, and named pipes. |> |>I generally use this: |> |> cd /old_partition |> tar cf - . | (cd /new_partition; tar xvlpf -) |> |>Note the "p" flag to the extracting tar. You must be "su"-ed to root |>while doing this. See how each side of the pipe has a different |>current directory? |> |> Thanks |> |> Bruce u can also do it with `cp` - i did that (even moved my /dev) for any other info plz refer to `man cp` [ I don't remmeber! :-) ] just saying it's possible :-) Regards borik
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