My apologies, you are correct. I think my brain stepped out for a
moment... :)
To be exact: if you tar using a directory name, it works fine, but if
you use a wild card it doesn't see dot files (because that's how
wildcard expansion works).
thus:
cd $HOME
tar -cvf /archive/homedir.tar *
will no
On 4 Nov 2002, Paul Furness wrote:
> There is only one snag with tartar: it doesn't pick up 'dot' files in
> the starting directory.
If you mean files of the form .name, I can't see that it doesn't.
ls won't show them without -a though.
Lawson
---oops---
_
There is only one snag with tartar: it doesn't pick up 'dot' files in
the starting directory.
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Michael Scondo wrote:
>
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > ##copy a directory or partition
> > > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf -
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Michael Scondo wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > ##copy a directory or partition
> > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf -
> >
>
> That's an idea, but I believe parted should be much faster.
> I think compressing and decompressing would be a little bit slow ?
>
It's not compressing
Paul Furness wrote:
This does, however, have the disadvantage that your existing partitions
are copied but not resized. Eventually, you end up with lots of little
partitions (after a couple of hard disk upgrades...)
you are absolutely right. I allready lost the old 256 MB swap
partition. (un
Am Freitag, 1. November 2002 01:30 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, 1stFlight wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory
> > structure. I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I
> > copy/clone this drive over to it's 60B replace
This does, however, have the disadvantage that your existing partitions
are copied but not resized. Eventually, you end up with lots of little
partitions (after a couple of hard disk upgrades...)
P.
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 16:59, Dragos LUNGU wrote:
>
>
> 1stFlight wrote:
> > I'm looking for a
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, 1stFlight wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure.
> I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this
> drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks!
>
> Darryl
I wouldn't copy/clone it, I'd
1stFlight wrote:
I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure.
I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this
drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks!
Hi
just finished this operation last night .
setup :
boot from /dev/hda
/d
Excuse the confusion, I wasn't thinking straight. In my examples below,
the < and > are not intended to be used in the command - I just meant to
highlight the source / destination descriptions.
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:52, Paul Furness wrote:
> Connect the new drive in place as the secondary.
>
Connect the new drive in place as the secondary.
Boot as normal.
Use fdisk as appropriate on the new drive to set up your partitions as
you want them.
Create file systems on the partitions you have created using whatever
file system you are using (eg Ext3). This does not have to be the same
as th
I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure.
I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this
drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks!
12 matches
Mail list logo
