Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote:

> While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of
> resources. The compression ("-z") makes locally no sense, and there is
> no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You
> will get the exact same result with
> # cp -a /source /dest

There is one slight disadvantage to cp in that it changed the modified
time of directories to the current time, which rsync does not. I'd use

rsync -ax /source/ /dest/


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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