[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

Russell Howe rhowe at wiss.co.uk
Tue Jun 8 12:42:54 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:12:59PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:10:56PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > 		cd "$fs" && tar cvlpf - . | (cd "/mnt/newdisk$fs" && tar xlpf -)
> 
> Yeah, Tet is right.  The 'cd' is necessary here.

GNU tar has a -C option which avoids the need to use 'cd'.

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