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Re: hdd change



On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:55, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
[snip]
> 4. Run the following command:
> # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new

Just curious: why no "x" or "j" in order to minimize disk IO?

[snip]
> That will do an excellent job of duplicating your drive.  Make sure you
> do your bootloader as well, depending on what you use.  You can do other
> excludes on the tar command.  Note the lack of a "/" at the beginning,
> that is on purpose.

Lack of "/" at the beginning of what?  The 2nd tar command?

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