From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 13:14:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8479437B405 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.120.160.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D9D43F18 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from lothlorien.nagual.st (dick@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/arwen) with ESMTP id h0BLCSaK013292 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:12:28 +0100 Received: (from dick@localhost) by lothlorien.nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/local) id h0BLCSoW013290 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:12:28 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:12:28 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd Message-ID: <20030111211228.GA13157@nagual.st> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> <20030111160708.GA3152@nagual.st> <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com> <15904.31413.95743.309046@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15904.31413.95743.309046@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Jan Mike Meyer wrote: > Bill Moran typed: > > Use 'cp -Rp /old/part /new/part' to maintain as many perms as > > possible. > > No, *don't* use cp for this. That will cause hard links to turn into > multiple files. Instead, use tar: > > (cd /old/part; tar cf - .) | (cd /new/part; tar xpf -) I think I'll go for this solution. That way all I do is *read* the ext2 part (safe), so this should do what I want. It sure is a lot of data, mostly mp3's and kind of a software archive for the winboxes. People at home expect me to give them this share back in a healthy condition. The don't care for the main OS on the server ;-)) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message