Hi,
cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication because it
will re-create device nodes.
Cheers,
Steve Williams
On 10/12/2017 11:03 AM, webmas...@bennettconstruction.us wrote:
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Scary. This is just temporary.
OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't
get true duplication.
tar
It can't work with file and directory names
that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself.
Quite a while back I lost a lot of unimportant files
and directories that had absolute paths too long.
Why is this happening with tar? Can this be fixed?
If not, I'd like to add a note about that to the FAQ.
dump
I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs,
etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it
to the new partition, expecting a true duplication.
Nope.
It changed all of the program symlinks permissions.
Why is dump doing this? Can this be fixed?
Otherwise, a note about this should be added to the FAQ
also.
Question:
Can dd be used to do what I did with dump or tar?
Smaller partition copied to a bigger partition.
I'm willing to try and help out, but I'm going through
both laptop and server hell at the moment.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
