Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 06:32:24 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information of the old root

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-08 Thread Mick
On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /mnt/source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination tar xBfp -) What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-( -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-08 Thread Phil Sexton
Mick wrote: On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /mnt/source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination tar xBfp -) What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-( -- Regards, Mick I'm not 100 percent sure that I understand it, but I use it since the O'Reilly article

[gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to buy a new (bigger) one. When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-07 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 07 April 2006 23:32, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information of the old root as possible)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-07 Thread Phil Sexton
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to buy a new (bigger) one. When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to buy a new (bigger) one. When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best