Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

[Alex Schuster]

Joerg Schilling writes:

> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:02:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > > tar -C /old cpf - | tar -C /new xvpf -
> > >
> > > You'll probably not want to do the entire / in a single go,
> > > since /proc, /sys, and /dev (at least) should be skipped.
> >
> > Which can be done with the -l option.
>
> You are mistaken: The -l option causes tar to warn if not all hars links
> to a file could not be resolved.

We're one the Gentoo Linux list here and so we're talking about GNU tar, 
where -l is a synonym for --one-file-system, Neil is right. Original Unix 
tar works like you say, but we don't use it here.

	Wonko