Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:30:01 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011028280.16539-100000@atlas.usls.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 August 1999 at 18:49:13 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: > > What is the best way to move everything from one partition (not > > slice) to another, larger partition? I was looking at 'cp -pR', but that > > doesn't quite do it right - hard-linked files become multiple copies. > > tar will do this correctly. But the version in -STABLE and -RELEASE > can't handle devices with large minor numbers. there's an example in the manpage of tar. tar cf - . | (cd /some/where; tar xf -) > No, that's the way they're allocated. But I have great doubts that > you need even as many partitions as you have. is there a limit to the maximum partition? if there is, how do you increase the limit? -- francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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