I recently ran into the problem of not having enough hard drive space on my slackware linux laptop, but was lucky enough to have a much bigger drive sitting around from before and wanted a way to perform a hassle free seamless upgrade. i had this idea and it worked pretty well so i thought i would share it since i think it's pretty cool and only requires the use of two tools that should be included with all distributions. sometimes you won't find netcat (known as nc, or ncat as it is sometimes named) and if bash incorporated my server redirections patch that i posted before you wouldn't need it at all, but for now it's required to listen for the incoming connections over the net. . The link for this article located at Metashell is no longer available. . Discover the best practices for securing your Windows setup through PowerShell, zip, and FTP with this concise tutorial.. Linux Backup,Bash Scripts,Netcat Transfer,Tar Archiving,System Upgrade Process. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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