On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:51:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote:

> cd / && tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk && tar xBfp -)
> 
> This maintains your permissions and leaves out the verbose messages

This will also try to copy the contents of /newdisk to /newdisk/newdisk.
Use the -l option to avoid descending into other filesystems. Or do

rsync -ax / /newdisk/


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