Re: [F8] Need help with tar or how to copy root to new drive?

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• Subject: Re: [F8] Need help with tar or how to copy root to new drive?
• From: "Garry Williams" <gtwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:12:03 -0500
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On Jan 18, 2008 12:06 AM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1) mkdir /mnt/new
> 2) mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt/new
> 3) cd /mnt/new
> 4) (cd /; tar --one-file-system --xattrs -cf - .) | tar --one-file-system --xattrs -tvf -)

Hmmm.  Let me remove the "noise":

    ...
    cd /mnt/new
    ...
    cd /

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