Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:02:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > > tar -C /old cpf - | tar -C /new xvpf - > > > > You'll probably not want to do the entire / in a single go, > > since /proc, /sys, and /dev (at least) should be skipped. > > Which can be done with the -l option.
You are mistaken: The -l option causes tar to warn if not all hars links to a file could not be resolved. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
