Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 12:19 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
It was also here:
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz
but it was removed:
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.
However, it doesn't say what bug was that.
Randall put his finger on it...
The method I listed failed to include flags for preserving permissions (-p), access time (--atime-preserve) and staying within the filesystem (-l).
Removing it is rather shortsighted...the editor should have just included the appropriate flags.
It is not as simple as that.
If a different set of options corrected the problem they found, they would have said so and write up the correct encantation. But no, they said it was a bug.
It has to be some bug, then, probably corrected since, or maybe not. I can't say unless they say what the bug was.
If it was an actual bug, then tar would be completely broken, and not fit for use under any circumstance. The editor was just lazy... or, giving him the benefit of the doubt, didn't realize that these flags had been created and were now available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org