On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> I want to move my root file system to a different hard drive. I know I can use
> some tweaked tar or dump command to do this. Basically I tar/dump to stdout and
> the untar/restore from stdin, but haven't quite figure out the way to do this.
> I'm thinking something like:
>
> tar -cvf - / | tar -xvf -
>
Here is the classic, straight from the Sun OS tar manpage:
tar cfv - . | (cd todir; tar xfBp -)
(of course you need to run this from the directory you're trying to tar)
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