On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:06:04AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ethan> cp -R is a horribly wrong thing to use for this task, it > Ethan> will destroy symlinks and hardlinks. turning them into > Ethan> duplicate files. use cpio or tar. > > or > > cp -a > > will preserve everything, too, I think. I often use the -x parameter, > too (stay on one file system).
There are porblems with symlinks in the target location using cp... the best way is to do something like: # tar cf - /usr | ( cd /new_partition ; tar xf - ) -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing!
