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Re: LIP General issues
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Gilad Gam wrote:
> > > If it's good what is the fastest way to copy HD->HD (and Preserve all
> > > permissions and sym links) someting:
> > > cd / ; tar -cf - | tar -xf - newtarget (I din't find in tar's man page
> > > how do I specify the target dir, It's not -C!)
> > > How to avoid the recursive copying of the HD mounted under /mnt?
> >
> > $ cd /mnt
> > $ (cd / ; tar cf - . --one-file-system) | tar xvf -
>
> Will it copy /dev correctly?
should be ok.
> Also, it will copy /proc, which is probably unnecessary.
the --one-file-system should take care of that...
Ira Abramov,
testing imapd for the first time, and is pretty impressed.
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