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Re: migrating slackwareOS to a new hard drive?

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From: qyswmhk
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 02:33
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|> GNU tar does. I've done complete network transfers of disk contents
|> using tar and netcat.
|
|Aren't there also some other things that could be happening with /proc and 
|/dev, like dynamic content creation? I can't remember the details but I 
|thought I'd throw that out there.

I normally exclude /proc from the tar since its contents are virtual.
/dev is ok to tar, GNU tar knows what to do with device files.
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