-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Michael Viron wrote:
Tks, Michael! I will disconnect the CDRW, I think it may turn things 'better'... But just on question... about 'tar' command: Will it include the dot files? the last time I used (not bz2!) all 'dot files' were left behind! Thanks again! >If you have any ide connections left, place the new hard drive as whatever >you have available (ie, hdd, maybe?). If not, is there a CDROM or CDRW >drive that you can temporarily disconnect? >If not, then you can do a 'tar -cvjf /path/to/tempdir/home.bz2 /home', >which will tar / bzip2 anything on /home. >1. Next, place the new hard drive into the PC (and restart). >2. Once everything comes up (possibly with a /home mount error), type >fdisk /dev/hd[a-d] (depending on where it is on the ide controllers), and >create an ext2 partition. >3. Run mke2fs. >4. Run tune2fs (and add the journal to convert to ext3). >5. Mount the new partition as /home-new (make sure /home-new exists). >6. From within /home, do a 'cp -a * /home-new' (or if you've had to pull >out the old /home, do a 'cp /path/to/tempdir/home.bz2 /home-new', then do a >'tar -xvjf home.bz2'. If this places an additional 'home' in the directory >path (ie, /home-new/home/*), do a 'cd home' and then a 'mv * ..' . >7. Edit the fstab to mount the new drive as /home, and the old drive as >/backup, /archive, or whatever (unless you have no spot for the old drive, >in which case don't worry about adding an fstab entry for it). >Michael Ricardo Castanho - -- Whenever possible mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iEYEARECAAYFAjwQuQMACgkQ9I0k95pf9Xt5hwCgieOtyGM8y/GTGDPJUuB25jTs gHIAn32a+s/8ndmiYLU3G6JJkG+NtH+t =1M9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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