Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:03:04 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: Ballard Jonathan H <sacramentokidd@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -pPR Message-ID: <3A99E388.FAC483AC@pacbell.net> References: <000d01c09f99$9d05f580$0400a8c0@vectra>
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--------------5B293E473ADF779274395BBF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit # cd /src/dir # tar cf - . | ( cd /target/dir; tar xvBpf - ) (This is from memory; tar(1) flags change from epoch to epoch, so trust but verify. :-) Or did I misunderstand the question? -- richard Ballard Jonathan H wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Regents, Yesterday to duplicate directory structures from > one mount to another the `cp -pPR` command was used. Everything > except the directory times and few files with 'schng' where duplicated > without any problems reported. The files with the 'schng' flags were > duplicated except yet returned 'warnings'. Zero length 'schng' files > (/var/pwcheck/pwcheck) reported an error while duplicated. Directory > dates were updated yet the orginal directory dates was expected to be > duplicated. Is there another method to acheived desired results? $ > uname -aFreeBSD abyss.cybertronix.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE > #3: Wed Dec 13 09:33:45 PST 2000 > root@abyss.cybertronix.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/CYBETRONIX i386 -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA --------------5B293E473ADF779274395BBF Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> # cd /src/dir <br># tar cf - . | ( cd /target/dir; tar xvBpf - ) <p>(This is from memory; tar(1) flags change from epoch to epoch, so trust but verify. :-) <p>Or did I misunderstand the question? <br> <p>-- richard <br> <p>Ballard Jonathan H wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Dear FreeBSD Regents,</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Yesterday to duplicate directory structures from one mount to another the `cp -pPR` command was used. Everything except the directory times and few files with 'schng' where duplicated without any problems reported. The files with the 'schng' flags were duplicated except yet returned 'warnings'. Zero length 'schng' files (/var/pwcheck/pwcheck) reported an error while duplicated. Directory dates were updated yet the orginal directory dates was expected to be duplicated.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Is there another method to acheived desired results?</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>$ uname -a</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>FreeBSD abyss.cybertronix.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #3: Wed Dec 13 09:33:45 PST 2000 <a href="mailto:root@abyss.cybertronix.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/CYBETRONIX">root@abyss.cybertronix.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/CYBETRONIX</a> i386</font></font></blockquote> <p>-- <br>Richard A. Childers <br>Senor UNIX Administrator <br>fscked@pacbell.net (email) <br>203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) <p># Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. <br># PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA <br> </body> </html> --------------5B293E473ADF779274395BBF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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