> > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a
> > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead.
Hrm... what about 'rsync'? Does it suffer from the same problems as 'tar'?
I use rsync a lot because its incremental. This is off topic from migrating
to
a new disk, but I am curious...
-Steve
> yes, tar is a horrible way to do this.
>
> newfs /dev/whatever
> mount /dev/whatever /new
> cd /new
> dump 0f - /dev/your-root-device | restore rf -
>
> At least that's how I do it ...
>
> ron
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