[Sunhelp] Filesystem

[Terry Brown]

At 13:44 12/12/99, Giorgio Guagnini wrote:
>Hi at all,
>My name is Giorgio Guagnini from italy,
>i'm a novice in solaris.
>I have a sparcstation 5 85 modified by me at 96 mhz  with solaris 7
>installed in 1 gb hard disk but i have low free space for data and
>programs.
>I want copy my filesystem in  hard disk of 4 gb.
>I have initialized it with FORMAT and after ,in single user,copied the
>filesystem with CP  recursive but not functioning.
>Is there an command as ufsdump or other that permit me to transfert
>filesystem directly between two hard disk of different capacity?
>Thank at all !
>
>
You could use tar like so (from the gnu tar man page):

cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar fxvBp -)

This will copy all files from "fromdir" to "todir" and keep all
permissions, ownerships, file modification dates etc.

Hope this helps,
Terry
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