Re: hdd change
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:49:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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?
('"z" or "j"', perhaps?)
The two tars are in a pipe; disk I/O won't be affected by compression,
and you'll just spend time compressing and decompressing all the data
for no gain ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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