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From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: help on newfs and a new partition
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:59:33 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: grog@lemis.de
In-Reply-To: <199610060904.LAA26162@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Oct 6, 96 11:04:28 am
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> This doesn't happen under FreeBSD.  Did you see it under System V?  In
> any case, this (traditional) method of copying is no longer
> necessary.  cp has an -R option which says "recursively copy
> subdirectories", so instead of 
> 
>   (cd /usr/local; tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt; tar xfv -)
> 
> you can write
> 
>   cp -pR /usr/local /mnt
> 
> The -p option has the same meaning as with tar: keep the original
> permissions.

Only one another problem: if I remember well, cp cannot handle hard links
(somebody've written a question about it!).  If you try it on /stand,
you'll get a hundred different files, instead of hundred hard links.
So, it's better to use this one.
Or try these:
a)
cd /usr/local ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pumd /mnt
b)
cd /usr/local ; find . -depth -print | pax -rw /mnt
c) something like this:
cd /usr/local ; pax -rw . -d /mnt

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	Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>

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