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Re: LIP General issues



On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Stas Bekman wrote:

> 4. HD->HD copy:
> What if I prepare a HD with a very general linux installed, and just 
> do a repartitioning on a new HD, and copy the ready HD. No need to update
> fstab, lilo ? Only Xconfig to change. I believe it's faster then full 
> install proccess?
> 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 -

et voila.


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