From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 12:13:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B4437B749 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F43C43F13 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042747957.6ce038@mired.org) Received: (qmail 69159 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2003 20:12:37 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 11 Jan 2003 20:12:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15904.31413.95743.309046@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:12:37 -0600 To: Bill Moran Cc: dick hoogendijk , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd In-Reply-To: <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> <20030111160708.GA3152@nagual.st> <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com>, Bill Moran typed: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > Yup. Use 'cp -Rp /old/part /new/part' to maintain as many perms > as possible. No, *don't* use cp for this. That will cause hard links to turn into multiple files. Instead, use tar: (cd /old/part; tar cf - .) | (cd /new/part; tar xpf -) http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message