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Re: Hard-disk Change




> tar

Why ? Use cp -dpR. This will copy the things in /dev. DO NOT launch this
as cp -dpR /dev/* ... , instead, cp -dpR /dev ... You may also want to use
-x.

tar will choke on /dev contents. If you have to, use cpio which can handle
this.

hope this helps,

Peter