On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:00:56 +1200, you wrote: >On Mar 29, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> Put both disks in the same machine and use cpio to move the data. >> >> man cpio >> cpio --help >> >cpio is a dreadful holdover from sys V unix, iirc ... the syntax is >horrible, and there are absolutely no benefits over tar (not least >originally because each Unix vendor used a different internal cpio >format ...). > >If the disks are on the same machine (which is doubtful because one of >the machines is a laptop) then dd would be interesting (vide an earlier >discussion on the list), or tar would be normal. > >-jim > Hey, don't knock cpio! Oracle still deliver their software as a cpio archive (^:
It did have historical benefits over tar, primarily that it handled named pipes and devices correctly - and, of course, I can remember all of the switches ( including the DEC Ultrix specific ones! ). More seriously, do you want to borrow a 40Gig USB 2 drive? It's slow, but sooo easy to use. Cheers, Steve
