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, etc). >> >> partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, format (mkfs) and mount the new >> drive. >> >> tar cf top_level_dirs; (cd /new_drive_monut_point; tar xpf -) > > I believe you'll have to pipe the output of the first tar to the second > process: > > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - )
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 identical copies of /var/SomeDir. Be careful. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
