Re: transfering to new HDD
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
> >
> > > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - )
> >
> > Yes, that would be more like it.
>
> Thought so. I'd hate for someone to find out the hard way....
>
> > > There's a utility to recreate the lost+found directory if you do manage
> > > to overwrite it -- it needs to sit on a specific inode for the filesystem
> > > to be able to recover lost clusters properly. RTFM, it's there somewhere.
> >
> > Isn't lost+found created by mkfs?
>
> Yes, it is (or mke2fs, or whatever). My understanding of this is
> somewhat limited, but here goes.
>
> Files and directories are identified under most Linux-like fileystems
> (e2fs, minix fs, UFS, etc., but *not* msdos, vfat), by inodes. An inode
> is essentially a database entry in a table giving storage location,
> name, and values of several attributes (read/write/execute/suid), etc.
^^^^^^
name? Files are nameless in UNIX. Read about hard links for example
And from inode you should get storage, attirbutes, times (creation,
access) and reference counter.
regards
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