Re: Moving Unix

[Todd Vierling <tv%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Matthias Scheler wrote:

: The "dump" and "restore" command I told need only very littel additional
: harddisk space (for "restoresymtable"). It is just a fast, reliable and
: comfortable method to copy whole partition under NetBSD.

There's always the classic line run under csh:

    (cd /usr; tar cf - * .??*) | (cd /mnt; tar xfp -)

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