On Jan 15, 1999, Howard Arons wrote:
I am planning to replace the small HDD where my / partition and swap partition are located (along with a Win95 FAT-16 partition for Win swap and misc stuff) with a bigger HDD. Here is how I plan to do it.
Does anyone see any (hidden) danger here?
1. Tar the / filesystem to my /opt partition on a 2nd HDD. "Mount" shows 49041 blocks used for / and 79838 blocks available on /opt. I will exclude /proc from the tar file. I do not have access to a tape unit.
I can now ask a more specific question. One of my main concerns was how tar would handle the /dev directory. As far as I can tell, there is only one anomaly, and I don't know what it means. The directory /dev contains a 'log' device of type 'socket': srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 12:30 /dev/log whereas the directory *regenerated* from a tar archive shows the same name for a different type of device (a pipe, I believe): prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 12:30 /opt/dev/log AFAIK the 'log' device seems to have been created at boot time. Will this behavior thwart my regeneration of the /dev directory from a tar archive? I'm way over my head here. Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>