Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
> > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
> >
> > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp'
> > for that purpose.  But what I usually do is 'tar -c ... | tar
> > -x ...'.
>
> if you do tar in this way, is better to use 
> "tar -pc ... | tar -px ..."

The -p option only does something when extracting an archive, so 
that first -p is pointless.  Better use 'tar' instead of 'cp -a', 
though, as it's much faster when copying many little files.

  cd /sourcedir && tar -cf - .  |  (cd /destdir; tar -xpvf -)

Benno
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