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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2010 09:38:42 Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>>
>> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you
>> > don't use them):
>> > cp -auv
>>
>> Maybe
>>
>> cp -auvx
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Just asking,
>> Mark
>
> if you are copying a life-sytem -x is needed. Indeed.
> But if you boot from a cd and mount source and destination on different mount
> points x is not needed.
>
>
Ah, good point.

I wasn't thinking about 'live' so much as just a complicated system
with multiple hard drives/partitions. For instance, copying /home
where here are links to other partitions for /home/users1,
/home/user2, etc. I wouldn't want to copy those other users along with
/home/user3 that resides on the /home partition physically.

Thanks for the clarification,
Mark