From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Yhz-0001mi-01 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:32:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7CCUMgO003451; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:30:22 GMT Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.6.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7CCQmjr029586 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:26:48 GMT Received: from grasveld (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp18.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IL300G52ZYD6C@smtp18.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:27:28 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200508121427.28509.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <42FBC032.3020508@pnpitalia.it> X-Archives-Salt: d92bf7aa-7cba-41f0-a492-25ad39d2a44a X-Archives-Hash: 3721c841447e5c780a49770f13a9cddd Fernando Meira wrote: > - move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, "cp > -a" or "rsync" would get better results? Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five times faster with tar than with cp -a. In a single line: cd /sourcedir; tar -cf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list