Not to mention losing EAs. I use either dump|restore or tar c|tar x, piped directly between the source and destination file system. In the case of tar, I make sure I use the "--xattr" option. I used to use find|cpio -p in year's past, but it's legacy and does not capture EAs and other details.
----- Original Message ----- From: Horst Severini <h...@nhn.ou.edu> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:18 AM Hi again, > It's far better to do a copy from old to new using a live dvd (in > order to work on a cleanly unmounted and not write accessed disk); if > you are in a real hurry, you could start doing a copy (at file system > level, i.e. cp) from old disk to new disk, and then later synchronize > it (e.g. re-copying all files changed from the first cp command). hmm, I always thought that cp wouldn't copy block devices and pipes and sparse files and other "non-standard" files correctly? But maybe that's no longer the case with modern versions. Thanks, Horst _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
