On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Sami Nuuttila wrote:
> William Hunt <wjh@huntbros.net> writes:
>> (5) use tar to copy live data from old mountpoints to new mountpoints.
>> for example:
>> OLDMNT=/
>> NEWMNT=hdb2
>> cd ${OLDMNT}
>> tar --one-file-system -cpvf - . | ( cd ${NEWMNT} ; tar -xpf - )
>
> I think its advisable to replace (cd ${NEWMNT} ; tar -xpf - ) with
> (cd ${NEWMNT} && tar -xpf - ) so that in the case of making some typo
> in ${NEWMNT} you don't end up messing your files...

yes, you're right, very good point.





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