Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:51:41 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Palmer <cpalmer@jig.ordway.org> To: Jeff Hamilton <gandolf@destiny.erols.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change harddrives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903222050280.2536-100000@jig.ordway.org> In-Reply-To: <199903212354.SAA04344@gandolf.dhs.org>
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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote: > The current drive is a 500 MB ide drive, and new drive will be a 1.2 GB > ide drive. I need to move / and /usr from the old drive onto the new > drive without losing any files, and preserving permissions, etc. The > slices on the new drive will be different sizes than on the old drive. > > What is the best way to go about doing this? I've used 'cp -a foo bar' to good effect before. If you treat 'tar' right (read the man page carefully), you can get similar results. Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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