Han Boetes wrote:
It started with my HD failing to sync when I was rebooting. And some odd errormessages I saw. So I was holding my breath hoping for it to be something else or just an incident.
DejC!-vC9. You are describing my laptop with its crappy Hitachi hard drive.
But it only got worse. So After a reboot and nearly loosing a lot of important stuff I decided to make the switch.
I wonder what it will take for me to get my thumbs out of my ass. Probably something similar. Hopefully not.
Anyway:
# There are two ways I found pretty comfortable to copy dirs. cp # -Rp is fast. rsync shows what's going on, and you can easily # update the remaining differences. So if you don't want to use # rsync you'll have to do the copying in single user mode. cp -Rp /etc . rsync -aP /var .
cp does not preserve hard links. There may be other issues too. If not using dump|restore (as mentioned in previous replies), I'd say pax is the OpenBSD way to copy directories. :)
mkdir $TARGET; cd $SOURCE; pax -rwpe . $TARGET /Alexander
