Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hello list > > > > My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So > > what we did was > > - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot) > > - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf) > > - threw the HD out > > - started rescue system, partitioned, made filesystems > > - mounted /nfsroot and /newroot (on the new HD) > > - tar cplf - /nfsroot | (cd /newroot && tar xpf) > > during the last step, his machine freezes (it's SuSE and SuSE kernel > > with reiserfs), mine, the server, does not > > > > So, why could that be? (jumpers on the hd are all ok, one partition is a > > windows one, and windows works, too) > > Which last step: tar -c, cd or tar -x? Can he read from /nfsroot? > Can he write to /newroot? Was it really "tar xpf" or was it "tar xpf -" > (hint)? > > Dima
Oh, sorry, it was "xpf -". The freeze appeared after about 1 GB has been copied. We worked around it: cp -a does the same job and does not freeze. (I found it in "Linux in a nutshell". The tar way was suggested by the german Linux-Magazin. that worked for me on local-only filesystems) thanks joerg
