Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

[Kyle Bader]

>> tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )
>> tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host "( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )"
>                                                    ^
> The ':' separating commands should be a ';'. Using the -C option would be
> a little easier, but your method also would work for star. This piping
> through ssh is quite cool, isn't it.

whoops, good catch!

> If $old_dir is the root partition, I would bin-mount it first to somewhere
> else, so other directories mounted to it (especially/dev, /proc and /sys)
> are not copied:
> mount -o bind / /mnt
> old_dir=/mnt

that too, copying over /proc/kcore is never fun ;P
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Kyle