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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!news.ecrc.de!news.space.net!mac.infodirekt.de!user From: ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas Schreiber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Best way to copy directory trees Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:59:09 +0200 Organization: infodirekt, Munich, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 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