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From: Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:19:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434667B8.8060900@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510070903.27133.nbensa@gmx.net>

Norberto Bensa wrote:

>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
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>>if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;)
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>Use tar since cp wont preserve empty dirs.
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># cd /path/to/old/dir
># tar cf - * | ( cd /path/to/new/dir && tar xf - )
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What about rsync -a ?

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>>They used tar, for some reasons they mentioned and I forgot ;)
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>:)
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-07  0:49 [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition Matthias Langer
2005-10-07  1:06 ` Joe Menola
2005-10-07  1:52   ` Matthias Langer
2005-10-07  2:05     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2005-10-07 12:03       ` Norberto Bensa
2005-10-07 12:19         ` Matthias Langer [this message]
2005-10-07  2:19     ` John Jolet
2005-10-07  5:16       ` Roy Wright
2005-10-07  1:07 ` W.Kenworthy
2005-10-07  7:34   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-07  9:40     ` capsel
2005-10-07 10:07       ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-07 12:15     ` Matthias Langer
2005-10-07 13:11       ` Neil Bothwick

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