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Re: Help transfering data....



find / -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt

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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:

:Hi.
:
:I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new
:drive as it is larger....
:
:now to the hard part ...
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:I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted)
:
:but it sat there cp'ing files for an hour and never got past the proc
:directory .... did I do something wrong ...
:
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:I know that before on this list some published a way to do this with tar
:I would like to do it that way if posible ....
:
:
:thanks in advance
:
:-Kevin 
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