Thanks to all.
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The command does not create a tar file, it uses STDIN and STDOUT.
Mike
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 17:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:11 pm, Michael Noble wrote:
> > To copy directories and files keeping ownership and permissions, etc the
> > same, use the following:
> >
> > tar c
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:11 pm, Michael Noble wrote:
> To copy directories and files keeping ownership and permissions, etc the
> same, use the following:
>
> tar cf - | (cd ;tar xf -)
>
> Do this as root.
>
I don't understand why you would want to go through the additional overhead of
creat
To copy directories and files keeping ownership and permissions, etc the
same, use the following:
tar cf - | (cd ;tar xf -)
Do this as root.
Mike
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:28, Christopher Joseph wrote:
> First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on
> the mail archiv
Ric Tibbetts wrote:
Forget cp, it will nearly always choke on some things. To get a
"reliable" copy, that guarentees all permissions, and ownerships will
stay in tact:
Better still, use rsync -avP / /
man rsync.
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Hi,
Even for root, tar options given previously and cpio
work perfectly.
With partimaged, U better make sure your enw root
partition is "exactly" the same size as the old.
Slightly bigger new root, and the extra space will be
wasted.
Slightly smaller new root, and U wont be able to
restore to a s
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 07:17, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> Forget cp, it will nearly always choke on some things. To get a
> "reliable" copy, that guarentees all permissions, and ownerships will
> stay in tact:
>
> #> cd /
> #> find /[old-home] -print | cpio -pdumv /[New-Home]
>
> Then make the appropria
U know what works best?
#cd /from_dir
#tar cvf - . | (cd /path/to/new/dir; tar xvpf -)
This will preserve everything as is!! Including links
and dates! Well, everything.
Explanation::
tar c=create v=verbose f=="device" "." ==from here
"|" (pipe) sends out of the section to second section
"(
Forget cp, it will nearly always choke on some things. To get a
"reliable" copy, that guarentees all permissions, and ownerships will
stay in tact:
#> cd /
#> find /[old-home] -print | cpio -pdumv /[New-Home]
Then make the appropriate changes to /etc/fstab, and you're there.
This one has never fa
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 06:28 am, Christopher Joseph wrote:
> BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of
> things have errored
cp -a should preserve permissions, ownership, etc..
Arn
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On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 23:28, Christopher Joseph wrote:
> First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on
> the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been
> able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.
>
> The problem:
>
> I
Sounds like you want cp -dpr, info cp gives you more details.
cheers
JH
on the 19/03/03 12:28, Christopher Joseph wrote:
First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on
the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been
able to trawl for past questi
First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on
the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been
able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.
The problem:
I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running
man
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