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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:50:20 +1000, Darren Walsh <theq@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
|I have a new hard drive. And want to basically take the /usr directory, and
|throw it on that drive, and then mount the new drive under /usr.
|
|How do I get a copy of /usr , with all the links done properly?
|
|(cp -R didnt copy links properly (copied the file it was pointing too))


partition the new drive, make a file system on the partition
( mke2fs ) and mount the new /usr as something like /newusr

Now run the following commandi (as root):

cd /usr
tar clf - . | ( cd /newusr && tar xpf - )

This makes a tar archive of the /usr directory and passes it directly
to another tar which is runninf in a sub-shell that has it working
directory changed to the new partition. The second tar extracts all the
files.

The 'l' in the first tar limits it to the one filesystem ( so if
/usr/local is a diferent partition it won't get copied ), the 'p'
in the secont tar is to extract all permission data. ( it might
be needed on the first as well. I've never had any problems
not using it at all ).


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