Re: migrating slackwareOS to a new hard drive?

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From: W
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:11

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In news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0408031001140.11811@worker.huntbros.net, William
Hunt bitched and moaned:
> (5) use tar to copy live data from old mountpoints to new mountpoints.
> for example:
>
> OLDMNT=/
> NEWMNT=hdb2
> cd ${OLDMNT}
> tar --one-file-system -cpvf - . | ( cd ${NEWMNT} ; tar -xpf - )

`tar` does not recreate /dev properly, the last time I looked.

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