Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?

[Andrew Clausen]

David Ranch wrote:
> 
>  >This might be faster;
>  >
>  >(cd DIR; find . -depth -mount -print | cpio -pdlmu DEST)
> 
> Why would this be preferred or faster than:
> 
> tar cPf - / /bin /usr /var <blah> | (cd /mnt/mnt; tar xvPf -)
> 
> Is this just a religious thing like vi vs. emacs?

I guess so!  BTW: why do you need to have /bin if you already have /?
(Isn't it recursive?!)

>  >>          dd boot (make the new disk bootable)
>  >
>  >Probably won't work.  Purpose?
> 
> So if the master 10GB disk failed, I could put
> the 9gb in its place, reboot, and LILO will boot, etc.
> I'm not positive it would work though since the
> disks would have different geometry.  Worth
> a try though.

You need to reinstall lilo for it to work, since the physical location
of /boot/* might change.  Use "chroot [root-mount-point] /sbin/lilo"

Andrew Clausen