Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

[Albert Hopkins]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, jamesc@××××××××××××.com wrote:
> On Fri Jun  8 16:38 , Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> sent:

>
> Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where I do:
> $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./
> and then extract to the new directory.  I do this out of habit mostly and, yes,
> it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere for whatever reason...
>
> --James

The one thing I mentioned is that I actually pipe tar to tar (tar -c ...
| tar -x ...) which seems even more useless, but as I said I'm used to
doing some things out of habit.  Then I thought about why: the '-a' flag
is not available on all *nices... I believe it's a GNU extension.  So I
probably got used to using the tar trick on a non-GNU system and got
used to it because it works whether I'm using Linux or not.  But if
you're on a Linux system (that has rsync installed) then rsync is
probably the nicer option.  It's got even more options than GNU's cp.  I
actually 'alias cp="rsync"' on my Gentoo systems.

'dd' is good if you want to preserve filesystem/geometry but not good if
you don't. 
--
Albert W. Hopkins

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