From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 07:42:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91496106564A for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from egoitz@ramattack.net) Received: from proxypop04.sare.net (proxypop04.sare.net [194.30.0.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA148FC08 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.saremail.com (unknown [194.30.0.100]) by proxypop04.sare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6B409DC56B for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:42:26 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:42:26 +0100 From: egoitz@ramattack.net To: In-Reply-To: <4F43F10B.4020803@fisglobal.com> References: "\"<201045320adcd61af12f6d6df2ffdd4e@ramattack.net>" " <006b01ccf0c3$0263b6c0$072b2440$@fisglobal.com> <4d1b4484fdf4aef1a8a267f05f71f450@ramattack.net> <007001ccf0c6$a4a920c0$edfb6240$@fisglobal.com> <4F43F10B.4020803@fisglobal.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: egoitz@ramattack.net User-Agent: Saremail/0.6-svn Subject: Re: New iso format on 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:42:28 -0000 On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:31:23 -0800, Robison, Dave wrote: > On 02/21/2012 10:28, Devin Teske wrote: >> Why can't you mount the disc on /mnt and then use tar after mounting >> the disk to copy the files from /mnt to /destdir ... >> >> tar cpf - -C /mnt . | tar xvpf - -C /destdir >> >> That will preserve hard links, symlinks, permissions, and times (and >> doesn't require rsync). >> >> There are other methods involving cpio, but I find tar to be nice. > > > Just FYI, a trick using cpio which Julian once taught me: > > find . -depth | cpio -pdmluv /destination/dir/here > > > -- > Dave Robison > Sales Solution Architect II > FIS Banking Solutions > 510/621-2089 (w) > 530/518-5194 (c) > 510/621-2020 (f) > daver@vicor.com > david.robison@fisglobal.com > > _____________ > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) > delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute > or > use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender > immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed > to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other > than > the intended recipient. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks a lot this one and the previous advice using tar was what I was looking for :) :) Thanks a lot really :)