On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -) > > > > This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose messages > > This will also try to copy the contents of /newdisk to /newdisk/newdisk. > Use the -l option to avoid descending into other filesystems. Or do
True, I had forgotten that, as I had tried it that way on my first attempt to clone a drive and I ran out of disk space because it wanted to keep copying itsself. I should have opened my linux text file (my memory, I call it..) I usually mount the partitions I want to copy on /mnt/source and tar that over to /mnt/destination > rsync -ax / /newdisk/ I might try that when I can afford another drive. Thanks for the free fish... -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- [email protected] mailing list
