On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:03, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > Also, to copy filesystems I typically see tar piped to tar > recommended... is there any reason to favor that method over "cp -a" on > systems that support it?
Not really. It's just that cp -a is a GNUism and relatively recent. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
