On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:15, John T. Douglass wrote: > This is not true. cp -r will in fact copy all the dot files. The > recursive option of copy picks up everything. It does not however > preserve the timestamps and links that the cp -a would (since the -a is > the same as a -dpR). > > What is more like the case is that many zero filled files (such as core > dumps) were moved and when they were recreated they were no longer > sparse files. When moving large amounts of data to new file systems cp > -r simply is the best option. One alternative is a tar such as: > > tar cfS - blackduck | (cd /home1; tar xpSf -) > > The S is for sparse files and will handle them efficiently. > > Alternatives would be a dump/restore pipe or cpio pipe similar to above. > > -- John
Doooh -- that should be "-r simply is NOT the best option" -- John -- John T. Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Argonne National Laboratory West -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
