The way I duplicate a complete directory structure is to cd to the
directory that I want to copy from and then do (as root)
find . | cpio -pdmuv /destination
It will preserve all owners, times, links and will recreate empty
directories.
If you don't want to cross mounted filesystems then add the -mount
argument to find.
Matthias Oertli wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to copy the contents of a linux partition onto a bigger
> partition on a replacement harddisk. I'd like an exact copy with all
> the permissions intact, etc.
> Would a simple cp -a /oldhd/* /newhd/* do the trick is there a
> better way?
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
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