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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk
From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com>
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>> tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
>> tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host "( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )"
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0^
> The ':' separating commands should be a ';'. Using the -C option would be
> a little easier, but your method also would work for star. This piping
> through ssh is quite cool, isn't it.

whoops, good catch!

> If $old_dir is the root partition, I would bin-mount it first to somewher=
e
> else, so other directories mounted to it (especially/dev, /proc and /sys)
> are not copied:
> mount -o bind / /mnt
> old_dir=3D/mnt

that too, copying over /proc/kcore is never fun ;P
--=20

Kyle