In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you writ e: |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"?
Unless GNU cp doesn't know how to handle sparse files and device inodes, looks like there isn't. Except for the habit acuired from years of usage (I startted when "dump | resotore" was the best way because dump access the partition directly :) Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous
