On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:41, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > Hi all > > Since my server crashed and burned rather spectacularly on Friday I've > rebuilt it as a single boot Gentoo box. I've been able to get rid of some > legacy stuff, but I have one thing left. I have a 120Gb hard drive that > contains 27Gb of movies, music and a shared Portage tree. However, due to > my using this when I was weaning myself off Windows it's a Fat32 > partition. I'd like to make it something a bit more robust and secure like > XFS or JFS. > > What would be the best way to move all of this data onto my desktop > computer (the only one with enough space) and then back after I've > reformatted the drive? Rsync? scp? Huge tar file? Put both disks in the same machine and use cpio to move the data.
man cpio cpio --help will tell you the gory details. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
