Am Samstag 09 Juni 2007 02:25 schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > > > > > Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command > > where I do: $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz > > ./ > > and then extract to the new directory. I do this out of habit mostly > > and, yes, it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere > > for whatever reason... > > > > --James > > The one thing I mentioned is that I actually pipe tar to tar (tar -c ... > > | tar -x ...) which seems even more useless, but as I said I'm used to > > doing some things out of habit. Then I thought about why: the '-a' flag > is not available on all *nices... I believe it's a GNU extension. So I > probably got used to using the tar trick on a non-GNU system and got > used to it because it works whether I'm using Linux or not. But if > you're on a Linux system (that has rsync installed) then rsync is > probably the nicer option. It's got even more options than GNU's cp. I > actually 'alias cp="rsync"' on my Gentoo systems. > > 'dd' is good if you want to preserve filesystem/geometry but not good if > you don't. > -- > Albert W. Hopkins
I wouldn't recommend dd, either. Using dd you would preserve all the fragmentation of the old file system while cp, tar and rsync don't.
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