Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:02:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...] Message-ID: <20071028230203.GA13943@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
>
> I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes.
> Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair
> the damage.
>
> At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to
> elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy
> everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command.
>
The nutshelll of this posting could be: What's the best tool
to copy a /FILESYSTEM to /storage/FILESYSTEM?
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