Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
Try booting off a floppy, mounting the two drives/partions as
/mnt/target and /mnt/source
Then use the command
(cd /mnt/source && tar c .)|(cd /mnt/target && tar xvp)
That's how I recently moved my home directories to a bigger disk.
The p on the second tar statement is important because it preserves the
partitions.
I think this came from the HOWTO-TIPS document originally.
david..
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote:
> I've seen (and kept) posts on how to transfer a system to a new HD.
> what I'm stumped on is how this is done when /, /usr, and /home are on
> *separate partitions* and I want to keep it that way. Can anyone tell
> me how this is done? At this state the "find . -mount -depth
> -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount" method sounds like the most promising,
> but how this is done per partition is a mystery.
>
> My thanks to anyone who can help.
>
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