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- From: astone@irscscm.UUCP (Art Stone)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Best method for filesystem copy?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.184402.28159@irscscm.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:44:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.144945.6339@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Internal Revenue Service
- Lines: 22
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- markb@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (Mark R. Baith) writes:
- :
- : I need to copy a filesystem currently housed on a 1 Gb disk to a 2 Gb
- : disk. dump seemed like a good idea, but the procedure kept asking for
- : additional tapes??? I was told that dump must be given a large enough
- : combo of length/density in order to "fool" the procedure into thinking
- : you're basically doing a dump to one huge tape rather than a disk...
- : this is somewhat inconsistent with what I've read on the subject, but
- : then again, the SGI man page on dump says absolutely nothing about
- : disk to disk dumps...Does anyone have an idea?
- :
- : Thanks in advance,
- :
- : Mark
-
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- from one filesystem to another. The "other" filesystem may have to be remote
- mounted. Anyway, you cissue the following command:
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- find /sourcedir -print | cpio -pdmv /newdir
-
- Good luck!!
-