On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:23 am, Cameron Simpson wrote: > The filesystems _are_ actually mounted, yes? > Not merely mentioned in the fstab? Yes... I even tested by writing to them and looking at df to see that the files were ending up on the right drive. > What does "df -lk" say? It says everything ended up on the / partition until it filled up. > That generates a tar file with paths starting "/mnt/hda1/blah...". > If hda1 is supposed to be being copied onto / on the target system > you want this: > > cd /mnt/hda1 > tar cf - . | ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 'cd / || exit 1; tar xf -' You've got it! My face is red. Me bad. <blush> Thanks very much. I'm going to get the hair dye tonight; I'll re-tar everything again in the morning. > Does that do what you intend? I'm sure it will. 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
