Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:13:15 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? Message-ID: <3AB524EB.F9C0590D@pacbell.net> References: <39600000.984925985@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
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I may have missed some of the context here ... but what's wrong with
% ( cd /src/dir ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /target/dir ; tar xvBpf - )
... or something along those lines?
-- richard
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> On Sunday, March 18, 2001 05:04:39 -0600, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> +-----
> | The problem with this is that "cp -R" doesn't correctly handle a file
> | with more than one link to it. This means you're wasting a lot of
> +--->8
>
> *shrug* I can try to do the dump/restore, the problem is that I'm moving
> from one big partition to separate / and /usr and the current / won't fit
> in the new one.
>
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