I'm using tar to move data between machines, but even though I've got partitions at various mount points on the target machine (/boot, /var/ /usr, /usr/local, home), the mounts are being ignored and the data is being moved to the underlying / partition, which obviously fills up quickly and results in nonusable drive. The system I want to duplicate is mounted at /mnt/hda1 on system A (a knoppix system, running from CDROM, for convenience). the drive on /mnt/hda1 is a standard RHL 7.3 diretory tree, but it's all in one partition. The system I want to move to is a RHL 7.3 system, which was built with only the network packages, sshd and the joe editor installed. Here's the tar command I'm using (piped through SSH); it shows up wrapped as two lines in the email but it's a one-line command. It was given to my by someone else. <snip> tar -c -f - /mnt/hda1/ 2>/ramdisk/error.log | ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx tar -C / -x -f - </snip Is it right? Is it causing the problem? Can it cause the problem? Any way around this? I need to get this system copied over. Thanks. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 US Professional Internet Services & Support / Consulting / Colocation Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 324-9706, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
