Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:29:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar vs cp Message-ID: <20031001122603.B71418-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
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I've been told in the past that if you have a series of directories
with subdirectories that you need to copy to another location on a disk,
it is better to tar the directory, move the tarred file to the
destination, and then untar it, rather than using cp to copy the directory
and all of its contents.
I don't know what the actual rationale is for this. Can anyone explain
why it is oftentimes better to tar something rather than using cp when
copying directories and their contents?
Thanks,
- Jamie
"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."
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