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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.cybercomm.net!usenet From: "glen" <gi143@cybercomm.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees Date: 3 Aug 1996 18:11:36 GMT Organization: CyberComm Online Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <01bb8253$ab5fcf60$6ac4abc7@rick-dell> References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sl-010.sl.cybercomm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1141 The best way to copy directory trees is with cpio. look at the cpio and find man pages. Thomas Schreiber <ts@infodirekt.de> wrote in article <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de>... > I have installed a second drive on my FreeBSD 2.1 machine > and want to move a few file systems around now. > > What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving > access dates, permissions, links and so on? > > I know about > > cp -pr > tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -) > > but both seem to not exactly preserve directory trees. > > Thomas > > ____________________________________________________________ > infodirekt - Thomas Schreiber Tel: +49 89/324796-50 > Frankfurter Ring 193a Fax: +49 89/324796-51 > 80807 Muenchen, Germany email: ts@infodirekt.de > ________________________ See you at http://www.infodirekt.de >