Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop:
Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then
cd /
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -)
would copy some things to /mnt then copy /mnt/* to /mnt/mnt/ and so on.
It doesn't. I've been using this a lot lately while reorganising file
Nono no no... please don't rely on such features of GNU software. This
will NOT work with a generic cp on other systems. Please use either a
piped tar or a cpio,afio or whatever else. The cp method mentioned above
is definitely not the way to solve such general unix administration tasks.
and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over
100 characters (of course, dpkg won't have installed any, but they may
be around for other reasons...) I used the tar approach for years,
but cp -a turns out to be much more reliable (and I can fall back to
tar if I have to --
From: Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over
100 characters
Well, we've beaten this dead horse for long enough.
I think GNU tar will handle over-100-character filenames. There is an
extension to the tar format to handle them.
Mark Eichin:
and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over
100 characters
GNU tar does that as well.
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Tim Egbert wrote:
On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second
drive just has the /home directory
Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second
On 11:20:51 Tim Egbert wrote:
Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
various Debian software packages, programs,
When replicating a system between two partitions, the thing most often
missed is that you must preserve symbolic links instead of copying them
as files. It's also important to preserve the ownership and permissions
of files, and obscure things like the setuid bits, character and block
special
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
|When replicating a system between two partitions, the thing most often
|missed is that you must preserve symbolic links instead of copying them
|as files. It's also important to preserve the ownership and permissions
|of files, and obscure things like the
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
u can also do it with `cp` - i did that (even moved my /dev)
cp -a is the easiest way to duplicate something.
-a, --archive
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and
attributes of the
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
Hello Guy,
u can also do it with `cp` - i did that (even moved my /dev)
cp -a is the easiest way to duplicate something.
-a, --archive
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and
attributes of the original
Bruce Perens wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
cd /old_partition
tar cf - . | (cd /new_partition; tar xvlpf -)
Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop:
Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then
cd /
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -)
would copy some things
I'm surprised this important question has run for so long. Is it in a
Linux FAQ?
Anyhow, here's my contribution ( hopefully this'll wrap it up ;- ):
cd /; find . -path ./mnt -prune -o print | cpio -pdxm /mnt
This copies the whole disk to the mount point /mnt, avoiding the
recursive traversal
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Steffen Mueller wrote:
|Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:35:25 +0200 (MET DST)
|From: Steffen Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|To: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: RE: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
|
|On Wed, 4
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
Hello Boris,
i am telling ya - i moved all my root dir exept /usr from one part to
another...
it worked
i didn't do it with cp -a
there are alot more options that i used , i just don't remmeber them now ,
if u realy want - i can do
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Steffen Mueller wrote:
|Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:36:44 +0200 (MET DST)
|From: Steffen Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|To: borik the Boris Yati Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED],
|Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: RE: How to migrate
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
|Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:50:58 +0300 (IDT)
|From: borik the Boris Yati Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|To: Steffen Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED],
|Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: RE: How
At 07:20 AM 9/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
various Debian software packages,
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