Re: Screwed up copying partition to another disk

2015-04-12 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:24:46AM -0400, Kenneth Gober wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Chris Bennett < > chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > > > Works fine, except I overlooked mounting /DST on first try, so > > everything ended up in / until full. I also started deleting thos

Re: Screwed up copying partition to another disk

2015-04-12 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Chris Bennett < chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > Works fine, except I overlooked mounting /DST on first try, so > everything ended up in / until full. I also started deleting those files > until I realized I was in /SRC and Ctrl C it. > Now I have a pr

Re: Screwed up copying partition to another disk

2015-04-10 Thread dan mclaughlin
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:00:06 -0500 Chris Bennett wrote: > I have been copying home folders from several disks that should be near > failing due to age to an external USB disk. > > I have been using: > cd /SRC; tar cf - . | (cd /DST; tar xpf - ) > > Works fine, except I overlooked mounting /DST