Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:03:17 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving /home to new drive Message-ID: <20070718190317.61fc9dd6@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070718150304.GA67836@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <28f0d5eec763405178ccd826b4212941@szalbot.homedns.org> <20070718150304.GA67836@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:03:04 -0400 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > Since the old one is not a file system > unto itself, you will not be about to use dump (well you could > in a certain way, but) so, probably you will want to use tar with a > -P. One problem with tar and cp is that they can't properly copy sparse file like dump|restore can, so in certain cases data can blow-up in size. cpio claims to be be able to recreate sparse files, but I found that when I tried this on mlnet data, some of the download percentage-complete figures dropped, suggesting it hadn't got it right.
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