On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:33:12AM +1000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> * tar cf - * | (cd /mntnew ; tar xf -)
> the important line here is the tar line, this will preserve symlinks (a
> few caveats apply) and permissions and everything while copying a
> directory tree to another directory/filesystem/etc
I think that you'll need the second tar to be "tar xfp" (I
usually use "tar xvfp" for amusement's sake). Man tar says:
-p
--same-permissions
--preserve-permissions Extract all protection information.
from which I have always concluded that without -p you get the
operator (root's) current permissions on everything.
You probably want an "l" or "--one-file-system" option on the
first tar too, so that it doesn't follow a symlink onto
some partition other than /mntold.
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Andrew
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