On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jeremy Wiebe wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I just bought a new hard drive and would like some advice.
>
> If I want to transfer the entire installation to a new, bigger hard drive,
> will it work to just tar it up to a third drive and then untar it to the new
> drive? (Or will this cause problems with the sizes of the drives being
> different?)
AFAIK you don't even need the third drive. Can't you make tar output to
stdout, and another tar input from stdin, and put them in a pipeline ?
I can't give you more specific help, as I usually use cpio.
With cpio , you would do something like this:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt # supposing your new drive is hdb1
cd /
find . -xdev -print | cpio -oc | (cd /mnt ; cpio -ict)
Frank
>
> Thought I'd ask about this before I do it so I don't have to get out my
> RedHat 5.1 disc to reinstall if it messes up.
>
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