Re: [cobalt-users] "Failsafe" full restore procedure

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Toby Miller wrote:

> Matthew Goade wrote:
>
> >Notes: cfdisk reports the unused space as unusable. I cannot(to my
> >knowledge) make a partition out of it.
> >I do not have sufficient space on / to tar /home onto it in order to resize
> >/home.
>
> Matthew,
>
> Assuming the /home partition is large enough to hold a copy of itself I
> think you could tar /home up into itself and then ftp the tar to another
> machine whilst you resize the partition.  I believe this should work.
<snip>
> Login as root ==> su -
> Make a temp directory ==> mkdir /home/hometmp
> CD to the new directory ==> cd /home/hometmp
> Tar a copy of /home ==> tar cvf home.tar /home
> Shut down all services ==> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
>

just a little suggestion,
you can make the tar file considerably smaller by using
tar czvf home.tar.gz
'z' to create a gzip tar compressed file


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