Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> 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? >> > > cp works good enough for most people. Also it was about you claiming > something > that is plainly wrong. cp on linux has the -a option. Everything else is > irrelevant. We do not need to care about some 'unix cp' because linux uses > the > gnu userland. And I am pretty sure you know what gnu stands for. > > >> 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. >> > > star? > > like the star mentioned on this page: > http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html > > "Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress > files."" > > yeah, sounds really convincing. > > >
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not, then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD, mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the CD, then what? None of this matters anyway. Dale :-) :-)
