Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:37:39 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, aburke@nullplusone.net, gamato@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr Message-ID: <4554B8E3.1050604@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <1163175782.00634431.1163163003@10.7.7.3> References: <1163175782.00634431.1163163003@10.7.7.3>
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on 10/11/2006 14:32 Oliver Fromme said the following: > Aaron Burke wrote: > > SNIP > > > > (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) > > > > (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) > > > iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar > > > missing something? > > Well, technically no, but it requires more typing. > > That's why I prefer to use cpio: > > cd /usr; find -dx . | cpio -dump /mnt > > which works on _any_ version of FreeBSD out of the box. $ pax rw /usr /mnt is even less typing and works on any system with POSIX-compliant utilities :-) Not to mention all other goodies that pax provides (I especially like -s option). -- Andriy Gapon
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