On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: > Andrew Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I have set up a debian mirror on my hdd and was wondering what is > | the best way to move it to another partion. > > The most common way is to do something a-la > > "cd original-dir; tar cf - . | (cd new-dir; tar xvf -)"
I always use "cp -af sourcedir destdir && rm -rf sourcedir". It preserves ownership, permissions, timestamp etc. I think this only works with GNU cp, which is why most people use the tar command...commercial unixes, unlike linux, don't usually come with GNU cp. Is there any reason why the tar command is better than "cp -af"? Craig
