On Tuesday 28 December 2010 16:26:16 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:02:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > tar -C /old cpf - | tar -C /new xvpf - > > > > > > You'll probably not want to do the entire / in a single go, > > > since /proc, /sys, and /dev (at least) should be skipped. > > > > Which can be done with the -l option. > > You are mistaken: The -l option causes tar to warn if not all hars links to > a file could not be resolved.
I often use this with a LiveCD: cd /home tar --exclude File1 --exclude Dir1 -lcpvSf - . | (cd /mnt/new_partition; tar - xpvf - ) or something like this with star: star -copy -p -xdot -xattr -H=exustar -sparse -M -C /home . /mnt/new_partition (You can use -V -pat=File1 to exclude files or directories with star, use the -M option to avoid following mount points). -- Regards, Mick
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