How copy /usr contents to a new partition?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 13 08:49:28 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:20 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I want to copy /usr to a new partition and then attach that at /usr. I
> issued a command
>
> cp -options(recursive included) /usr /mnt/"mountpoint
>
> This resulted in the creation of a new "usr" directory under
> /mnt/"mountpoint"/usr and contents of /usr went into sub-directories. What
> I want is to copy all the subdirectories and files directly under /usr to
> go at /mnt/"mountpoint" for obvious reasons. How do I do that? "Man cp"
> did not give me any clue.
>
> Also, is there a command which compares each file under two directory
> trees for difference.(I want to verify after the above operation)
How about:
# cp -a /usr/* /mnt/"mountpoint"/
This won't get any files whose names starting with "." directly
under /usr, but you probably don't have any of those anyway:
$ ls -al /usr
Paul.
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