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using tar and turning grey

using tar and turning grey

2004-02-10       - By Jeff Lasman

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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:23 am, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> The filesystems _are_ actually mounted, yes?
> Not merely mentioned in the fstab?

Yes... I even tested by writing to them and looking at df to see that
the files were ending up on the right drive.

> What does "df -lk " say?

It says everything ended up on the / partition until it filled up.

> That generates a tar file with paths starting "/mnt/hda1/blah... ".
> If hda1 is supposed to be being copied onto / on the target system
> you want this:
>
>    cd /mnt/hda1
>    tar cf - . | ssh root@(protected) 'cd / || exit 1; tar xf - '

You 've got it! My face is red. Me bad.

<blush >

Thanks very much. I 'm going to get the hair dye tonight; I 'll re-tar
everything again in the morning.

> Does that do what you intend?

I 'm sure it will.

Jeff
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