> > ( cd <old-mount-point> ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd <new-mount-point> ; tar xf - ) > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also > use "tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug.
I do not know that bug, and I am not aware of any, as I am using tar this way very often. I have never lost a file. Permissions, time stamps, everything stays as it was. Maybe it refers to older versions of tar. Very old ones for instance did not handle very gracefully certain special files. It is possible that tar is confused by the /proc file system. This one I never tried. Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
