Hi Joe, I heard about to tar directories before. Then after partitioning a new hard drive untar the compressed directories to their respective partition. It is quite convenient for moving the existing hard drive to another new hard drive. This method can also be used for backup a hard drive. But I have no actual experience on these backup and restore method. Could you shed me some light 1) It is to tar the directory on the same hare drive first and burn the tarball on a CD later 2) If 'YES' it must have sufficient space on the same hard disk. If insufficient space can I add a slave disk for temporary storage. 3) Can I tar the directory and burn the tarball on a CD directly without using the hard disk 4) What will be the exact command to tar a complete directory including sub-directories and save the tarball on hard disk 5) What will be the exact command to untar the tarball to a new partition. Thank in advance. Stephen Liu At 08:57 AM 2002/10/31 -0500, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 31 Oct 2002, Neal D. Becker wrote: > > > He guys. Have you heard of tar? That has always worked fine for me > > to clone linux filesystems, and even windoze. > > This reminds me about something I came across a few years ago that >has worked well for me. I have used this to move partitions and even >whole disks. > > find . -print | cpio -0pduma [dest dir] > >If I remember right the cpio switches are not 100% correct but it was very >easy to figure out which one from the error it gives. > >- -- >Paradise; can it be all I heard it was? >I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
