Duplicating a file system / re: ** Emegancy Request **
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > For some reason that I do not understand the authors of the "Hrad Disk
> Upgrade
> > Mini How-To" claim about this or very similar one that
> >
> > Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also
> > use "tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a
> bug.
>
> tar doesn't deal well with device files.
>
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> Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer
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This command will take care of duplicating everything including device
files and permissions:
find <source dir> -mount | cpio -dumpv <target dir>
Use -mount if you only want to copy the source partition. (This ignores
other mount points).
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Dan Griffiths
Unix Systems Support Specialist
Unisys (NZ) Ltd.
Cell: +64 25 605 3748
Phone: +64 4 462 2805 Fax: +64 4 462 2836
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