On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:47:24 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I am looking for a faster way to do a > > cp -a r <thisdir> <thatdir> > > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside.
rsync can parallel some of the tasks, like creating paths while files are being copied, so I guess it wouldn't hurt to test it against cp: rsync -HaAX <thisdir> <thatdir> Flags are: -H - hardlinks -a - ids, modes, timestamps -A - ACLs -X - extended attributes You might want to throw in '-x' for 'one-file-system', but that contradicts with behavior of given cp example. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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