On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:06 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Do not use cp, it doesn't preserve permission bits. > cp -a does and is much faster than rsync.
if you want to populate new hard drive w/o anything on it. I suggest you use Tar as it is faster and it uses block copy rather than char-by-char. > (sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r4) > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:13:25 up 22:08, 6 users, load average: 0.50, 0.78, 0.79 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
