[ale] Help me build a new /home

[James Sumners]

`cd /home; tar cf user_home.tar user`

On 8/8/07, Evan Pitstick <bikingnerd at comcast.net> wrote:
> Not a very good play on words....
>
> Anyways I am trying to make an exact copy of my /home to a new HD I
> installed so that I can replace my old home partition with a fancy new
> 400GB drive of its very own. I dont want to use cp -r as I dont think it
> will get the drive done and I tried find . -depth -print0 | cpio -pvd0
> --sparce but I get a two many arguments error. does anybody know of a
> good way of getting a good exact copy?


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James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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