Kevin J Poorman hat gesagt: // Kevin J Poorman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > > I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new > drive as it is larger.... > > now to the hard part ... > > I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted) > > but it sat there cp'ing files for an hour and never got past the proc > directory .... did I do something wrong ... > > > I know that before on this list some published a way to do this with tar > I would like to do it that way if posible .... > >
I don't like all this tar-tricks people normally suggest, because I am to stupid to remember them ;) A simple solution is the "-x"-switch to cp (Try "man cp"). "copy -ax" copies everything only out of the one filesystem where you started. /proc is another `filesystem` so it won't get copied to your "/mnt"-directory. I think that is what you wanted to do in the first place. After you're done you will have to create a /proc directory in /mnt and edit the mount table in /etc/fstab. -- Yours, Frank Barknecht <<<<---------------------------------------------------->>>> <a href="http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/"> Das Kölner Stadt- und Unimagazin </a> <<<<--------------------------------------------------->>>>> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .