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2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var

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2004-05-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. > > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > > without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var /what

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-20 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Team: > > I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to > another. While cp would probably do fine, others have suggested using tar > or some other tool that is more robust for performing the copy. > > Any sugges

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Doug MacFarlane said... I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to another. [...] Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? I've done it using cpio(1), since

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
"Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > without the intermediate tar file? Copying a filesystem is a fairly time consuming task, but only initially complex. Fortunately, there is a HOWTO. http://ursine.ca/cgi-

Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Doug MacFarlane said... > > I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to > another. [...] > > Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, > without the intermediate tar file? I've done it using cpio(1), since tar didn't

Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-19 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to another. While cp would probably do fine, others have suggested using tar or some other tool that is more robust for performing the copy. Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, wit