[SunHELP] Re: [SunRescue] Hard drive upgrading

[James Sharp]

cd /
tar clf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xpf -)

This will copy everything from the / file system to whatever is mounted in
/mnt.  It will not cross filesystem boundaries.  If you want to copy
another file system, cd to it and change the cd /mnt to point to where you
want to copy it to

Much much much cleaner than using cp, and not such an ugly hack as using
dd.  Preserves file ownerships and modification times.


On Tue, 15 May 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> You might try cp -a.  Otherwise, make one partition on the new harddrive
> the same size as the boot partition (and partition the rest of the new
> boot drive however you want), then dd the contents across.
>
> --
> Joshua Boyd
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Paul Khoury wrote:
>
> > I recently successfully upgraded all but one hard drive on my SS2.  How can I upgrade
> > the root drive, with all the .blah-blah hidden files and such?  I tried cp -r -p .* /mnt
> > and that didn't work.
> >
> > Thanks all,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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