Re: linux copying
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote:
> another way is to tar and untar trough pipe without first tar and after this untar (if you do not space)
I do something like the following:
partition and format the new drive as i need
init 1
mount the new drive somewhere (say /newdrive)
create a file called /noback, that has:
/proc,
/newdrive
(and anything else you don't want to copy over) as its contents
cd /newdrive
tar -X /noback -cpf - / | tar -xvpf -
mkdir /newdrive/proc
chmod 555 /proc
power down
and then i usually use the rescue disk, pull the old drive put the new
drive in its place, boot off the rescue disk(rescue
root=/dev/newdriveaddress, and then go through the lilo steps.
Mike
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