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Mauro Faccenda wrote: |
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> On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: |
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> > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: |
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> > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part |
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> > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp' |
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> > for that purpose. But what I usually do is 'tar -c ... | tar |
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> > -x ...'. |
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> if you do tar in this way, is better to use |
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> "tar -pc ... | tar -px ..." |
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The -p option only does something when extracting an archive, so |
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that first -p is pointless. Better use 'tar' instead of 'cp -a', |
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though, as it's much faster when copying many little files. |
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cd /sourcedir && tar -cf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xpvf -) |
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Benno |
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