On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
>
> 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' for that
> purpose. But what I usually do is 'tar -c ... | tar -x ...'. I don't
> really know if it's better or not than using 'cp'. I just do it out of
> habit.
if you do tar in this way, is better to use "tar -pc ... | tar -px ..."
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