From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 12:59:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8783237B71E for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.74.157]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GAE000QAVMEDD@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:59:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:13:15 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AB524EB.F9C0590D@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <39600000.984925985@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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. > > -- > brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net > system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu > electrical and computer engineering KF8NH > carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message