[plug] imaging HD

[Cameron Patrick]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:42:39AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:

| Now, I don't have access to a *nix* machine at work, but it goes something
| like this
| tar cvfz / | tar xvfz   (but I strongly suggest you look thru the man pages
| to prevent the second hard drive from being tarred too, and being passed
| thru to the extract side.) 

Try 'tar clf - / | tar xpf -'; the compression will just slow
things down and the 'p' helps to preserve permissions and such.  'l'
forces tar to stay in one file system, which means that /proc and such
don't mess things up.

CP.