[Nolug] Re: ext3 to ReiserFS

Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> writes:

> When I say "copy", this might be more involved than "cp -R". I moved a
> partition once, and it wasn't fun. YMMV.

# (cd /old/partition; tar cf - .) | (cd /new/partition; tar xf -)

Or, for extra geek points, you could use cpio.

# (cd /old/partition; find . -type f -print0 | cpio -0o ) |
  (cd /new/partition; cpio -i -d)

Mark.

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