On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > 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"?
I have always heard it's because 'cp' copies symlinks as real files, but GNU cp doesn't seem to do that when using (-af). Also there is a (-d) option which is supposed to prevent this behavior. > > Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__Linux__1.3.77___ "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
