Chris Cappuccio [ch...@nmedia.net] wrote: > > such as: cp -r /usr/bin /mnt/usr/bin > or: tar cf - -C /usr/bin . | tar xpf - -C /mnt/usr/bin >
also the destination filesystem should be mounted with async (dangerous on power loss) or softdep (not very dangerous on power loss) to avoid huge amounts of metadata updates slowing your action.