[1151] in RedHat Linux List
Re: moving contents of hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sat Oct 26 19:07:09 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:57:44 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Julien Maillard wrote:
....
> > This is exactly the same as cp -a.
> and is the above equivalent to:
> `(cd /source;tar cf - .)|(cd /target;tar xvfp -)` ?
is one preferable?
Not exactly, I think 'cp -a' uses less CPU than
tarring/untarring; 'cp -a /source /target'
is also a better choice for unexperienced users
because it's more intuitive. It took me 5 (!!!)
hours of reading man pages the first time I was
trying to figure out how to use gzip and tar for
basic operations... I was kinda ashamed of asking
on this list about those commands and I'd most
likely get some "RTFM's" anyway.
Regards,
Vlad
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