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. > > -- > Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer > GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ > Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
This command will take care of duplicating everything including device files and permissions: find <source dir> -mount | cpio -dumpv <target dir> Use -mount if you only want to copy the source partition. (This ignores other mount points). -- Dan Griffiths Unix Systems Support Specialist Unisys (NZ) Ltd. Cell: +64 25 605 3748 Phone: +64 4 462 2805 Fax: +64 4 462 2836 Ignore the following unless you use pgp encryption. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzlZDz8AAAEEALg78glZXO14WTk7cv4knFn6Q2tKkLu5pUgxwvDjVagGC/sn buaEFnDsO7Bgjcz5KPeaqfb3ibbBHKSa0IbuGUUirsxaRmWxsVv25/bulnHRagqH MjumOHMSzEth03XQy+WOcI1bpvS9blhcOWMR/fqgrEghCotA80InYNL2WTiJAAUR tCtEYW4gR3JpZmZpdGhzIDxkYW4uZ3JpZmZpdGhzQG56LnVuaXN5cy5jb20+iQCV AwUQOVkPP0InYNL2WTiJAQEHqgP9GwnqMVbQLxw03hOAIZoLC+vgB94hwHoyHDLo zcGTdHyiSHLjwOBoL+zDby3nBFT/DxgRGLHeTzUbx9hW98sRGoTlT2DVACqgm51A ctUPEPATsl+JLLYOW1K2FtLzAI44rUdXMCIVhMYCmdBzrYTFauqm6YT5lfxBeXqB so4MG1M= =XJdK -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----