Re: Copying

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From: Steve Oxley
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00

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In article <37F433E9.D6C97D1@pantek.com>, Richard Zack wrote:
>I'd make a "tarball"!
>cd /usr
>tar -cvv -f newfile.tar *
>cp newfile.tar /newusr
>rm -rf /usr
>mv /newusr /usr
>Richard Zack     <richard@pantek.com>

Or better still, mount the new disk under /mnt, and then:
cd /usr
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt;tar xvf - )

two lines, much faster, no copying dirty great big tar balls around.

Steve

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Date: 1999/10/01
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