Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
Ken Gaugler wrote:
>
> Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I
> have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so
> I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one.
Here we go again.
You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and all
kinds of advice.
GNU "cp" has an archive switch, "cp -a", that does what you want.
People are gonna say, "Oh, don't use that, becuase it doesn't
exist on other systems so you might as well learn the hard way.
You're talking about a Linux system with gnu cp, right? What the
hell do you care if cp -a doesn't work on most UNIX platforms?
Of course, I recommend that you read the man (or info) page for
cp and try it on a directory such as /dev that has devices and symlinks.
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...RickM...
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