Re: Debian Mirror

[Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il>]

In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960425152009.9603b-100000@muffin.pronet.com> you writ
e:
|On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> Andrew Stephen <andrews@intrepid.byteline.com.au> wrote:
|> | I have set up a debian mirror on my hdd and was wondering what is
|> | the best way to move it to another partion.
|>
|> The most common way is to do something a-la
|>
|> "cd original-dir; tar cf - . | (cd new-dir; tar xvf -)"
|
|I always use "cp -af sourcedir destdir && rm -rf sourcedir".  It
|preserves ownership, permissions, timestamp etc.  I think this
|only works with GNU cp, which is why most people use the tar
|command...commercial unixes, unlike linux, don't usually come with GNU
|cp.
|
|Is there any reason why the tar command is better than "cp -af"?

Unless GNU cp doesn't know how to handle sparse files and device
inodes, looks like there isn't.  Except for the habit acuired from
years of usage (I startted when "dump | resotore" was the best way
because dump access the partition directly :)

Cheers,

--Amos

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