On 26 February 2010 10:06, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote:
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As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with
firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't
know of anyway to resume a dd.
I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not
sarcastic, except to mock myself).
Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
tar cf - $old_dir |
Kyle Bader writes:
I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not
sarcastic, except to mock myself).
Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
Yeah, that's what I usually do.n The
tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
^
The ':' separating commands should be a ';'. Using the -C option would be
a little easier, but your method also would work for star.
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:22 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
If $old_dir is the root partition, I would bin-mount it first to
somewhere else, so other directories mounted to it
(especially/dev, /proc and /sys) are not copied:
mount -o bind / /mnt
old_dir=/mnt
Or use the --one-file-system option
On 22 February 2010 16:49, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
On 25 Feb 2010, at 17:59, daid kahl wrote:
...
As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with
firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't
know of anyway to resume a dd.
NAME
dd - convert and copy a file
SYNOPSIS
dd [OPERAND]...
On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
/proc and /dev you don't want.
This could avoid any problems
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 19 Februar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an
unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated
(with no boot up), but I recall seeing things during boot like
On 02/19/2010 09:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an
unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated
(with no boot up),
On Freitag 19 Februar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an
unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated
(with no boot
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