According to Mark Willey:
>
>The situation is that I have moved my root disk to a new drive with:
>"cd /; tar cf - .??* [a-m]* [o-z]* | (cd nroot; tar xvpf -)"
>

A lot of people have an aversion to using tar for this.  Probably
because in the "good old days" tar did not create/handle the /dev
directory entries (hell, on one system I worked on tar tried _reading_
from the suckers - we are talking SYSV r2 here).

My preference is to use dump which is very good if you are dumping the
entire partition across.  Something like:

cd /; dump 0f - / | (cd /nroot && dump xf - )

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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