Re: Duplicating a file system

Bob Lanning (lanning@tidbit.fhda.edu)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 19:37:12 -0800 (PST)

---- As written by Marty Leisner:
>
> > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.960309093124.145A-100000@marvin.mars.org>, Bill Power
> > s writes:
> > > On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Joel Young wrote:
> > >
> > > This will also work: Assuming the partitions are mounted as /From/Dir and
> > > /To/Dir:
> > >
> > > (cd /From/Dir ; tar cf - . ) | (cd /To/Dir ; tar xvfp - )
> >
>
> Also look at tar -C /From/Dir -cf - . | tar -C /To/Dir -xvf -
>
> I'm not a really big fan of this nonintuitiveness (it certainly
> wasn't when I learned it...)
>
> I really favor
> cp -av <from dir> <to dir>
>
>
>
> --
> marty
> leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
> Member of the League for Programming Freedom
>
>
>

I like (cd /From/Dir;find . -depth -print | cpio -pd /To/Dir)
takes care of device files.

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