From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 19:38:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.usls.edu (linux1.usls.edu [202.47.133.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39FA015330 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francis@usls.edu) Received: by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 071A0A4CD; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:30:01 +0800 (PHT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB1C7D8F; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:30:01 +0800 (PHT) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:30:01 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis A. Vidal" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dave Walton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rearranging files In-Reply-To: <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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