Hi there!
I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer need
for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du -m to my
log directory so I can check what files are on which drive without having to
attach the drive.
Works, though a better method would
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:58:13 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Hi there!
I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer
need for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du
-m to my log directory so I can check what files are on which
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:58:13 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Hi there!
I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer
need for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du
-m to my log directory so I can
Am 29.01.2011 14:58, schrieb Alex Schuster:
Hi there!
I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer need
for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du -m to my
log directory so I can check what files are on which drive without having to
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:59 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
I just wrote a little script that does this, but it does not do the
sparse file thing yet, and would have problems with newline in file
names. And I guess someone already wrote such a utility?
IIUC, try
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:59 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
I just wrote a little script that does this, but it does not do the
sparse file thing yet, and would have problems with newline in file
names. And I guess someone already wrote such a
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:45:30 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Ah, now I get it. There's a -c missing after the sh command.
Right, thans for spotting it.
I should have added that, to do it safely, the target should reside
higher than the source in the hierarchy, or it should
Florian Philipp writes:
Use `truncate -s size file`
It creates a sparse file if the specified file is smaller than the
specified size. It will also create a new file if it does not yet exist.
Nice one. First I did not see an improvement over using dd to create the
sparse file, but in
Am 29.01.2011 20:31, schrieb Alex Schuster:
Florian Philipp writes:
[...]
For copying file attributes from one file to another you can use `cp
--attributes-only`.
Oh my, another case of a (german) man page that does not show all the
possible arguments. Never heard about that, thanks!
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:45:30 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
I should have added that, to do it safely, the target should reside
higher than the source in the hierarchy, or it should be on a different
filesystem and in that case -xdev should be specified
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