Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:58:01 -0500
From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: {Disarmed} Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071028185606.023e2f98@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071028230203.GA13943@thought.org>
References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> <20071028230203.GA13943@thought.org>
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At 06:02 PM 10/28/2007, Gary Kline wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> >
> > I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes.
> > Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair
> > the damage.
> >
> > At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to
> > elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy
> > everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command.
> >
> The nutshelll of this posting could be: What's the best tool
> to copy a /FILESYSTEM to /storage/FILESYSTEM?
I don't know if this is the "best" way, but is one I've done for years . . .
cd srcdir ; tar -cf - . | (cd destdir ; tar -xpf -)
which for your example would be:
cd /FILESYSTEM; tar -cf - . | (cd /storage/FILESYSTEM ; tar -xpf -)
then you would
rm -rf /FILESYSTEM
ln -s /storage/FILESYSTEM /FILESYSTEM
-Derek
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