cpio WAS: Rearranging partitions
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:29:32 -0000
> From: Nelson Posse Lago <listas2@that.com.br>
> To: Martin Stromberg <Martin.Stromberg@lu.erisoft.se>
> Message-Id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.961101221610.24011A-100000@fall.that.com.br>
> In-Reply-To: <199611010805.JAA01905@epsilon.lu.erisoft.se>
> Subject: Rearranging partitions WAS: Re: Question??
> find ./ | grep -v /mnt/ | cpio -pdmv /mnt
Thank you! Wonderful syntax, and demo of several nuances that have
escaped me until this day. I got out the man pages for grep and cpio,
and decoded the above, to learn how it does what I correctly intuited it
would do.
Could you briefly summarize why cp -a or tar -cvf are inappropriate or
less functional? Can an unmounted(*1) root filesystem be successfully
mirrored, identical to the original, on a target partition with a new
filesystem -- using cp -a or the tar -cvf (*2) method?
Christopher W. Hafey
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(*1) mounted on /mnt or anywhere but /, I meant
(*2) and corresponding tar -xvf method, to extract as target
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