Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:09:53 -0600 (CST) | From | Michael Brennen <> | Subject | Re: Moving whole system to a new HD |
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Joao Brazao Ferreira wrote:
> I'm needing to move my whole system from a 540Mb disk to a new 1.2Gb. > I have seen here a post about how to do it, but, unfortunatly, i didn't > save it. If someone, please, could repost it or give me a tip...
Try something like this (I haven't had to do this in a while, exact syntax may not be right):
cd /the/directory/above/the/tree/to/move tar cf - the-tree-to-move | ( cd /the/new/fs; tar xvf - )
-- Michael
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