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Re: moving contents of hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Info junkie)
Sat Oct 26 14:49:20 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:51:06 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, BORG wrote:
> Andy Lindeman wrote:
> >
> > Hello-
> >
> > I remember a thread about this from summer, but after a half hour
> > searching the archives, gave up...
> >
> > Anyway, I'm moving the contents of my hard drive to a new one. What
> > switches do I need to use with cp? Was there anything else I need to
> > watch out for?
>
> I'd do it like this:
>
> 1. Booted from a bootdisk or RH CDROM...
>
> 2. Mount one drive under /source
>
> 3. Mount another drive under /target
>
> 4. Issue this command:
>
> cp -af /source /target
>
I'll probably go with cp -dRp /source /target
-d maintain any symlinks
-R do it recursively
-p retain permissions and all other attributes.
cheers
jamal
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