On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de> wrote: > > On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying > > > > everything from the old drive to the new drive with: > > > > > > > > cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ > > > > > > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? > > > > of course he does. This is a linux list. Everybody is using the gnu > > tools. Not some broken solaris stuff. > > You seem to be uninformed.... what is the reason for advertizing "gcp" that > does not even support Linux specific features?
cp works good enough for most people. Also it was about you claiming something that is plainly wrong. cp on linux has the -a option. Everything else is irrelevant. We do not need to care about some 'unix cp' because linux uses the gnu userland. And I am pretty sure you know what gnu stands for. > > Using cp or a cp clone to copy complete directory trees always was a bad > idea on UNIX and it still is a bad idea on Linux too. The best way to copy > a complete filesystem is "star" as I mentioned before. Unlike the GNU tools > used on Linux, star supports Linux specific features and star copies > directory trees at least 30% faster than the fastest other tool you know. star? like the star mentioned on this page: http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html "Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress files."" yeah, sounds really convincing.
