> I have a two drive system, the second drive being one 18GB partition
> with about 3GB used. For various reasons I need to re-partition that
> drive. So, I want to copy that 3GB to another partition on drive one,
> repartition, and then copy it back.
i just did almost the exact same thing, copying the content of an 80GB
drive over to a new 120GB drive (only difference was not needing to copy
it back). after experimenting, i found that tar cvpf, cp -a, and rsync
-avz all basically Do The Right Thing, with permissions and timestamps
preserved. i ended up using rsync because i already use it for backups,
and i like having options for compression, how symlinks should be handled,
etc.
hth,
lisa
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