From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PXKkv-00038r-V7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:37:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B717FE066B; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888B5E066B for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib17 with SMTP id 17so2495178yib.40 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:35:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TYmt44rdRoO8HMUEUXuKhMhkycc6uXUkcGf1A8KQ9Ik=; b=EdsyzV1VAPIr6Ot/HQSFg+E2UQKnTSJM/HfPFh7o5QWiqfpRdwmv6Omm+u+eSU4hPW EIGUNE9xn86WKEErb3REmWPjLE96lLQu8AOB5HcEIKHPdJHF9Eyn9LBlTn7qfc1SMv02 b6UORR8wSmP2JUKYlihooVevF9cR8EIgYWl9U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jYOqtq745AzC+bzIwFjU7tYDFJF+e+zXYWYf9iFuAT1eGB4mRi2lApZ7e936YAYXWc uu0+UYsWR2m+GuHuZm+eTjEkbVuZsuoi6nu3m1/LZs78qgyz4Dhaot6CHMefpYfrAsQ6 7sGRdwc1qGoAmAobq1hTVAngrqQjYW55uQVCk= Received: by 10.151.113.19 with SMTP id q19mr17153568ybm.202.1293485759085; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-122-37.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f4sm9025751ybi.23.2010.12.27.13.35.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:35:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1906BC.3090202@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:35:56 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101212 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ? References: <4d18cc71.8190df0a.0961.fffffe65@mx.google.com> <4D18D09D.8070305@gmail.com> <20101227184530.33b0f2b4@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101227184530.33b0f2b4@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: df342fdc-0aa8-4fd4-ba96-8bbe41cb04ab X-Archives-Hash: 4978452b7aaa2198dcc214c0507915f2 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:45:01 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>> cp -auv >>> > >> The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I >> never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av >> fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if he is copying >> to a freshly partitioned drive, there shouldn't be anything there to >> update anyway so it will still copy everything. >> > You've just explained why rsync is a better choice. > > It may be better but my point was that I once had problems with the -u option. It was a freshly formatted drive so no idea why the -u would have even mattered since it has to copy everything over anyway. Dale :-) :-)