Copy EVERYTHING

[joe at illegal-access.de]

>> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:18 +0800, Hadders wrote:
>> >  > cd /oldpart;  find . -xdev | cpio -padm /newpart
>> > 
>
>The cpio command doesn't preserve the timestamp on directories.
>
>The tar version does:
>
>cd /oldpart
>tar cvf - . | ( cd /newpart ; tar xf -)


I thought, that a "cp -a" would do the same....

cu,
Joe

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