On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Steve Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication because it will
> re-create device nodes.
Both pax and tar do that as well.
-Otto
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Williams
>
>
> On 10/12/2017 11:03 AM, webmas...@bennettconstruction.us wrote:
> > Forgive problems with this email.
> > I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info
> > 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
