From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PXZgf-0000d9-O2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:34:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F59EE072B; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04C7E072B for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C97FF644D4B for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:32:37 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:32:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ? Message-ID: <20101228133231.522d4d40@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D196F67.1010400@kutulu.org> References: <4D196F67.1010400@kutulu.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs23 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/IDcG2==OOOip_0H.glQgjY2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 938bdbc6-2bcd-4f4c-b2fa-850e55a73002 X-Archives-Hash: 7775e5fc146af72f62f5e77f58f7d777 --Sig_/IDcG2==OOOip_0H.glQgjY2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:02:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > tar -C /old cpf - | tar -C /new xvpf - >=20 > You'll probably not want to do the entire / in a single go,=20 > since /proc, /sys, and /dev (at least) should be skipped.=20 Which can be done with the -l option. --=20 Neil Bothwick You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. --Sig_/IDcG2==OOOip_0H.glQgjY2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0Z5vQACgkQum4al0N1GQONuACfeEBrGhd2QwyPjwPAfEyLpbl8 TJsAmwSYyAiwuGcpBLk/OTCVjFjwe0QT =s0AS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/IDcG2==OOOip_0H.glQgjY2--