Instead of the two tar's, you could try:

	(cd /usr; pax -rw -p e . /mnt)

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:52:39 +0900 (JST),
> Mark Andres <mark@ratbert.giganet.net> wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice.  It did the trick.  Now if I can successfully
> > install my backed up /usr on to the new disk, I'll be very happy.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Assuming that the new disk is your sd1, and your primary NetBSD
> partition on it is sd1a, the following command sequence should do the
> trick:
> 
> newfs /dev/rsd1a
> mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
> (cd /usr; tar cf - .) | (cd /mnt; tar xvpf -)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ken
> 

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