Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:54:10 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: don@lizardhill.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right. Message-ID: <44637A42.8030209@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200605110227.k4B2RItS085960@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <005a01c67498$a54a2a70$0300020a@mickey> <200605110227.k4B2RItS085960@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do >> this: > > I think that the way to go is: > > tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfvBp - ) > > Note the Bp at the end of the extract tar. > > olivier Is that for BSD tar, or gtar (GNU)? We still haven't decided which is offering the problem, and I don't find "-B" described in bsdtar(1), although I can see why you'd want it in gtar, perhaps. Nonetheless, the tests I made with both tars didn't seem to have this problem. Can Don confirm whether this only occurs if /source/ is a filesystem mount point? (Also, which tar are you using? KDK -- Computer programs expand so as to fill the core available.
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