From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwwAj-0007Hb-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:19:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l598IXJI024575; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:18:33 GMT Received: from smtp11.unit.tiscali.de (smtp11.unit.tiscali.de [213.205.33.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l598EU3F019923 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:14:30 GMT Received: from homer_gentoo64.phheimnetz (77.130.159.105) by smtp11.unit.tiscali.de (7.3.121) (authenticated as florian.philipp@tiscali.de) id 464F3918002B0361 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:14:30 +0200 From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:14:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <55995.1181347306@reliant-data.com> <1181348732.25635.28.camel@blackwidow.nbk> In-Reply-To: <1181348732.25635.28.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2317701.K5aPilS8bV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706091014.20907.f.philipp@addcom.de> X-Archives-Salt: 40e58729-63f1-415b-900f-a08e26143051 X-Archives-Hash: 4f29ebad675302c6014f8c653519e7fb --nextPart2317701.K5aPilS8bV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Samstag 09 Juni 2007 02:25 schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, jamesc@reliant-data.com wrote: > > On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale sent: > > > > > > Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command > > where I do: $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz > > ./ > > and then extract to the new directory. I do this out of habit mostly > > and, yes, it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere > > for whatever reason... > > > > --James > > The one thing I mentioned is that I actually pipe tar to tar (tar -c ... > > | tar -x ...) which seems even more useless, but as I said I'm used to > > doing some things out of habit. Then I thought about why: the '-a' flag > is not available on all *nices... I believe it's a GNU extension. So I > probably got used to using the tar trick on a non-GNU system and got > used to it because it works whether I'm using Linux or not. But if > you're on a Linux system (that has rsync installed) then rsync is > probably the nicer option. It's got even more options than GNU's cp. I > actually 'alias cp=3D"rsync"' on my Gentoo systems. > > 'dd' is good if you want to preserve filesystem/geometry but not good if > you don't. > -- > Albert W. Hopkins I wouldn't recommend dd, either. Using dd you would preserve all the=20 fragmentation of the old file system while cp, tar and rsync don't. --nextPart2317701.K5aPilS8bV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGamFZCBEaaFO6I+ARAo+zAJ9jUeGPHv+4ZDAOlxzWeuR/h7E3IwCfTVmv 5TeDeC2/u9OdsDEkDJzYg0I= =vR+s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2317701.K5aPilS8bV-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list