Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying > > > everything from the old drive to the new drive with: > > > > > > cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ > > > > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? > > of course he does. This is a linux list. Everybody is using the gnu tools. > Not > some broken solaris stuff.
You seem to be uninformed.... what is the reason for advertizing "gcp" that does not even support Linux specific features? Using cp or a cp clone to copy complete directory trees always was a bad idea on UNIX and it still is a bad idea on Linux too. The best way to copy a complete filesystem is "star" as I mentioned before. Unlike the GNU tools used on Linux, star supports Linux specific features and star copies directory trees at least 30% faster than the fastest other tool you know. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
