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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: Fastest way to transfer whole filesystems?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.153236.9939@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <40335@unix.SRI.COM>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:32:36 GMT
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- In article <40335@unix.SRI.COM> cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
- >What's the fastest way to transfer an entire filesystem from one
- >disk partition to another (different type disk, larger partition)?
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- Probably cpio, with the p option:
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- find . -print | cpio -pd /newdir
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- Adding a blocking factor might help; I've had acceptable performance
- from this and haven't bothered with one.
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- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
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