-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-09-16 at 10:50 -0700, babu walad wrote:
I did a tar to move a partition to a newly formatted HD partition. When I do a df of the filesystems, the amount of space used is NOT equal. Therefore the copies are NOT identical at some level as far as the file system is concerned. I made sure to copy sym links as links and not resolve them.
Read this: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/modify.html Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To v2.11, 13 April 2000 How to copy a Linux system from one disk to another. ... 7. Copy the files from the old disk to the new disk ... Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use tar to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug. There are of course many other ways to copy the disks, but these three are the simplest, quickest, and most reliable. So... I don't know why everybody recomends using tar for that task, if it is known to be a buggy method... (what the bug is, I have no idea; ask the howto writer). - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDKxHBtTMYHG2NR9URAnp4AJ9mjNaZTY9Sgh7lHOEvl7+2A8VwFQCfbc1T 9MQPiEXNQhGjVcwqJ4OVD7w= =IVml -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----