On Jan 15, 1999, Howard Arons wrote:
>
> I am planning to replace the small HDD where my / partition and swap
> partition are located (along with a Win95 FAT-16 partition for Win swap
> and misc stuff) with a bigger HDD. Here is how I plan to do it.
>
> Does anyone see any (hidden) danger here?
>
> 1. Tar the / filesystem to my /opt partition on a 2nd HDD. "Mount"
> shows 49041 blocks used for / and 79838 blocks available on /opt. I
> will exclude /proc from the tar file. I do not have access to a tape
> unit.
I can now ask a more specific question. One of my main concerns was how
tar would handle the /dev directory. As far as I can tell, there is
only one anomaly, and I don't know what it means. The directory /dev
contains a 'log' device of type 'socket':
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 12:30 /dev/log
whereas the directory *regenerated* from a tar archive shows the same
name for a different type of device (a pipe, I believe):
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 12:30 /opt/dev/log
AFAIK the 'log' device seems to have been created at boot time.
Will this behavior thwart my regeneration of the /dev directory from a
tar archive? I'm way over my head here.
Howard Arons
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