Yes, that will include the 'dot files'--it's the same command that I use within a daily backup script to backup our entire /home drive.
Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:41 AM 12/07/2001 -0200, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Michael Viron wrote: > >Tks, Michael! > >I will disconnect the CDRW, I think it may turn things 'better'... > >But just on question... about 'tar' command: Will it include the dot >files? > >the last time I used (not bz2!) all 'dot files' were left behind! > >Thanks again! > > >>If you have any ide connections left, place the new hard drive as whatever >>you have available (ie, hdd, maybe?). If not, is there a CDROM or CDRW >>drive that you can temporarily disconnect? >>If not, then you can do a 'tar -cvjf /path/to/tempdir/home.bz2 /home', >>which will tar / bzip2 anything on /home. >>1. Next, place the new hard drive into the PC (and restart). >>2. Once everything comes up (possibly with a /home mount error), type >>fdisk /dev/hd[a-d] (depending on where it is on the ide controllers), and >>create an ext2 partition. >>3. Run mke2fs. >>4. Run tune2fs (and add the journal to convert to ext3). >>5. Mount the new partition as /home-new (make sure /home-new exists). >>6. From within /home, do a 'cp -a * /home-new' (or if you've had to pull >>out the old /home, do a 'cp /path/to/tempdir/home.bz2 /home-new', then do a >>'tar -xvjf home.bz2'. If this places an additional 'home' in the directory >>path (ie, /home-new/home/*), do a 'cd home' and then a 'mv * ..' . >>7. Edit the fstab to mount the new drive as /home, and the old drive as >>/backup, /archive, or whatever (unless you have no spot for the old drive, >>in which case don't worry about adding an fstab entry for it). >>Michael > > >Ricardo Castanho > >- -- >Whenever possible mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >========================================================== >Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user >========================================================== >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 > >iEYEARECAAYFAjwQuQMACgkQ9I0k95pf9Xt5hwCgieOtyGM8y/GTGDPJUuB25jTs >gHIAn32a+s/8ndmiYLU3G6JJkG+NtH+t >=1M9o >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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