From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:52:56 -0700 To: Giuliano Pochini Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Final question: best wasy to move /, /usr, /home, etc? Message-ID: <20020218145256.GB5172@dsdk12.net> References: <20020218021717.EDHQ21433.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: From: dpates@dsdk12.net (Derrik Pates) Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:42:53AM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > cp -a works fine. Yeah, unless you don't care about any hard links (which a simple 'cp -a' will happily stomp all over). Using tar is a better bet (I've done it plenty of times, it works). -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet dpates@dsdk12.net | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/