Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another

[Mark Eichin]

The solaris native cp rather unlike any linux cp :-) "cp --help"
should show you lots of good stuff, in particular the -a (--archive)
option, which does as much of the Right Thing as tar|tar does, with
the exception of a subtlety involving creating the target directory
(so use -av and *watch* what it is doing.)