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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2006 09:27:18 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        don@lizardhill.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.
Message-ID:  <200605110227.k4B2RItS085960@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <005a01c67498$a54a2a70$0300020a@mickey> (don@lizardhill.com)
References:  <005a01c67498$a54a2a70$0300020a@mickey>

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>  I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do
> this:

I think that the way to go is:

tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfvBp - )

Note the Bp at the end of the extract tar.

olivier



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