On Thursday 28 March 2002 20:16, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi, > A while back someone gave the command for a total, recursive copy of all > files for a drive to drive exchange. I searched the archive but to no > avail. I can't remember the subject line so I hope someone will have the > info at hand.
I assume cp -R /* /mnt/other_drive won't work because you'd be copying things in a recursive loop. In that case you might want to put everything into a massive tarball: su cd / tar cvf foo.tar * --exclude /mnt/* cp foo.tar /mnt/other_drive cd /mnt/other_drive tar xf foo.tar Sorry, can't check this, as I only have a few hundred MB left on my hard disk! Robin
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