Re: Copying

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From: loki
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00

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Steve Oxley <viking@valhalla.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote unto us:
>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

  I think removing the old /usr so fast is probably a bad idea, it's better
to keep it around, possibly reboot to make sure everything works fine, and
then think about deleting it.

>>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 - )

  This is less line and doesn't use disk space for a temp file, but isn't it
possibly going to use a heck of a lot of RAM?

-- 
    loki
eloki/at/zip.com.au

Dare I disturb the universe?  You bet I do! :)

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From: eloki@zip.com.au-nospam (loki)
Subject: Re: Copying
Date: 1999/10/01
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