Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:34:52 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: reorganizing partitions Message-ID: <xwirxwfcrn.rxw@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200508231933.j7NJXWje034814@aristotle.tamu.edu> (Robin Smith's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:33:32 -0500") References: <200508231933.j7NJXWje034814@aristotle.tamu.edu>
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Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> writes: > I intend to do this by the appropriate ugly mess of cp -pRP commands I can't comment on vinum issues, but "cp -pR" (-P is default) doesn't handle stuff like file attributes, AFAIK. Check, but I think 4.11 has the new FreeBSD "tar" (not "gtar") which is the think to use if you can't use dump/restore. Read your manual, but it's something like: tar cf - --one-file-system -C $SRCDIR . | tar xkpPf - -C $DSTDIR (I esp. wonder about "kpP".)
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