On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 at 14:48, JohnHomer wrote: > xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /c /h /e /k
My goodness. It's been awhile since I've used this. And no, I wouldn't trade cp for it any day. It's still better than copy, but ... > on fat32, for disk dupes works great for me, i dont have to worry bout > geometry/sizes. But you do have to worry about partitioning. Except you normally don't think of partitioning in Windows so ... > if we can get the "cp" equivalents for those switches, then, all will > be fine, I THINK. It really depends on what the objective is. "plug bert" wanted to dupe the entire disk. He wanted to copy partitioning and data as is. With using "cp" you (1) have to work out the partitions, (2) have to work out the creation of the filesystems on the target drive, and (3) have to contend with varying levels of stability for kernel support of that filesystem. Duping an ext2 partition is really no big issue, and I use this to do such things as shuffle my data around when converting from one filesystem to another (in my case ext2 -> ReiserFS -> XFS). I use either cp or a combination of tar commands as in something like: (cd / && tar -c root) || (cd /newdir && tar x) Or: cd /newdir; cp -ax /root .; --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
