On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > Hey!, learn something new every day! >
Obviously you weren't reading my very 1st post. I did put in the exact same directive. > Thanks!, > rgh. > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:31:04 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > > > > > > > >>tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs > >>somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your > >>new, blank, drive. > >> > >> > > > >It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses > >stdout, you need the -f option to use a file, so you can copy a partition > >with > > > >tar -cl /source | tar -xC /dest/ > > > >I still prefer rsync for this though. > > > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:51:59 up 1 day, 13:47, 5 users, load average: 0.87, 0.47, 0.31 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
