> If there's not enough space, tar czf or tar cIf and later tar xzf / tar xIf! > Bzip2/tar.gz compression really rocks (if you've got a fast cpu).
>> ( cd <old-mount-point> ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd <new-mount-point> ; tar xf - ) With this line, you do not have to worry about disk space, as long as the destination drive has enough. As this is done just in a pipe, I would not loose the time to compress and uncompress. BTW, this also handles correctly special files like those in /dev directory. All permissions will be preserved. Of course, you might need to be root and the destination disk needs to have been formatted. HTH. Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
