Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale: > >> >> I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the >> other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to >> tar up everything, transfer it over and untar it all on one line if >> possible? I plan to do this while booted from a Gentoo CD. I just want >> to try this so that it will be compressed then transfered and untared >> once on the way. Does this make since? I have used cp -av in the past. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > With "transfer" do you mean over a network, or to another local drive? > > You can of course use something like > # tar czpf - | ssh remote - tar xzpf -C /dir > (above probably not syntactically correct), but there are faster and > easier options: > > "cp -a" costs little resources locally and maintains POSIX permissions, > while "rsync -aASH --numeric-ids" is perfect for remote copy. > > You can use rsync also locally. It will (with the "-A" switch) also > transfer POSIX-ACLs, if that is of any concern. It is also useful, if a > transfer breaks at some moment, because it will kind of continue it :) > > Omiting the "-v" switch can significantly speed up things - depends on > your terminal. In every case it helps to only see the errors, and not > let them scroll away by everything that went well. > > Bye, > Daniel > >
The drive is in the same machine so there is no network involved. Should help make it a little more simple. Would this work? tar czpf - | tar xzpf -C /dir Basically, I want as clean a file system as I can get to start off with at least. Goal is very little fragmentation. Thanks Dale :-) :-)
