Re: Copy entire /usr

[François Cerbelle <francois@cerbelle.net>]

Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 08:15, Raven a écrit :
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> Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice
> on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have
> another method that would work better)

Hi,

You can use :
# ( cd /usr; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/newusr ; tar xvf -)

to do the copy, but as your disk will probably fail during the process,
rsync is a better choice as it can resume the copy.

I think you will certainly miss some files.

Fanfan
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