moving fs to new disk using tar

Hi all, I thought I was being very careful, but this didn't work like I'd hoped. Basically I want to move my /usr fs from one disk to another - the first will eventually be repartitioned, to use LVM and ReiserFS. Other filesystems will follow. So I used this command from / (in single user mode

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

heya, On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve --preserve --same-owner may i suggest a less confusing alternative: rsync -a usr/ /spareide it does for most intents and purposes the same thing.

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:48:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: heya, On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve --preserve --same-owner may i suggest a less confusing alternative: rsync -a