On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Michael Scondo wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > ##copy a directory or partition > > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - > > > > That's an idea, but I believe parted should be much faster. > I think compressing and decompressing would be a little bit slow ? > It's not compressing and decompressing. Tar only does that if you tell it (with an option I,y,z,Z or the corresponding long names or --use-compress-program). Saving and restoring this way will also defragment the filesystem.
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