Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

[Rick Jones <rickya@siservices.net>]

I forgott about this one.  This is the one I would use if I had to do over
again.

My perdicament is what Rick is refering to when he says here we go again,
I believe :)

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> ....RickM...
> 
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