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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:51:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      Christopher Palmer <cpalmer@jig.ordway.org>
To:        Jeff Hamilton <gandolf@destiny.erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Change harddrives?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903222050280.2536-100000@jig.ordway.org>
In-Reply-To: <199903212354.SAA04344@gandolf.dhs.org>

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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Jeff Hamilton wrote:

> The current drive is a 500 MB ide drive, and new drive will be a 1.2 GB 
> ide drive.  I need to move / and /usr from the old drive onto the new 
> drive without losing any files, and preserving permissions, etc.  The 
> slices on the new drive will be different sizes than on the old drive.
> 
> What is the best way to go about doing this?

I've used 'cp -a foo bar' to good effect before. If you treat 'tar' right
(read the man page carefully), you can get similar results.

Christopher Palmer
Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre
cpalmer@jig.ordway.org



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