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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I am trying to transfer all of BL2 (tar/gzip all the files
> > into one large temp.gz) to transfer to a new hard drive
> >
> > At /proc/bus/pci/00/07.3 the tar process stalls
>
> You should not copy the /proc directory.  The files contained
> in it do not really exist (but they occupy a huge amount of
> space if you try to copy them).

I noticed - 67MB for kcore.

> > The temp.tgz transfer method was explained by Steven:
> > On source computer, load Bl2, make temp.tgz:
> > tar -zcvf * temp.tgz
>
> On source computer, load *ramdisk* BL2 and copy your source
> partition from there.  It is best to copy a partition when
> it is not currently running as root filesystem.

Do you mean that I should load ramdisk BL2 and tar the files on the hard 
disk from there?

Thanks!

> Cheers,
> Steven
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