Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

[Dale]

Daniel Troeder wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>>
>> I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the
>> other drive anyway.  I would like to know what command I should use to
>> tar up everything, transfer it over and untar it all on one line if
>> possible?  I plan to do this while booted from a Gentoo CD.  I just want
>> to try this so that it will be compressed then transfered and untared
>> once on the way.  Does this make since?  I have used cp -av in the past.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> With "transfer" do you mean over a network, or to another local drive?
>
> You can of course use something like
> # tar czpf - | ssh remote - tar xzpf -C /dir
> (above probably not syntactically correct), but there are faster and
> easier options:
>
> "cp -a" costs little resources locally and maintains POSIX permissions,
> while "rsync -aASH --numeric-ids" is perfect for remote copy.
>
> You can use rsync also locally. It will (with the "-A" switch) also
> transfer POSIX-ACLs, if that is of any concern. It is also useful, if a
> transfer breaks at some moment, because it will kind of continue it :)
>
> Omiting the "-v" switch can significantly speed up things - depends on
> your terminal. In every case it helps to only see the errors, and not
> let them scroll away by everything that went well.
>
> Bye,
> Daniel
>
>

The drive is in the same machine so there is no network involved. 
Should help make it a little more simple.  Would this work?

tar czpf - | tar xzpf -C /dir

Basically, I want as clean a file system as I can get to start off with
at least.  Goal is very little fragmentation.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)