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Re: Copy entire filesystem



On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 adavis@netpci.com wrote:

> So far I haven't succeeded.  I haven't been able to confine tar's action to
> a single filesystem (so that directories linked to directories on other
> filesystems, on the other system drive, will not be copied.  Included is the
> linux boot filesystem, /dev/hda2.  I basically want the current drive
> duplicated to the new drive, with larger partitions, and another partition.  

You need to add the l option to tar. it means stay in the (l)ocal
filesystem.


George Bonser

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