On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk > > Upgrade > > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that > > > > 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. > > tar doesn't deal well with device files. >
Also, last I checked it didn't correctly handle hard links or sparse files, and ignored sockets entirely (not necessarily a big deal). I use afio for this kind of thing, and it's never failed me yet. e.g.: # find / -xdev -path '/lost+found' -prune -o -print | afio -p /newroot John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
