-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:40 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] A few issues
With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3,
this
one had to be the difficult one. It's my old C: partition from
which I
used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings
it
back.
Use "rsync -av /path/to/src /path/to/dest", that will allow you to 1) restart it and 2) --exclude stuff that causes you trouble.
/Peter
Looks like a neat command (never heard of it before).
Unfortunately, I shot myself in the foot: after saving everything else, I forgot all about the D&S stuff and converted the partition. Good thing I have a relatively recent backup, but now I'll have to use it in the Windows under VMWare, and be VERY careful how I restore what (so as not to overwrite the new installation). Foo.
To backup all the other files, I wound up doing multiple tars, one for the files in the root directory and then one each for the directories in the root directory. I used 'find' and 'tar tvf' with some string manipulations to verify that I had, in fact, tarred up all the files. I even restored them in the extra space I found on the new /D partition, but see also above for foot problems. :-}
Thanks.