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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.nkn.net!news From: syntax <syntax@eramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 23:04:43 -0500 Organization: National Knowledge Network Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32017E5B.41C67EA6@eramp.net> References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup25.eramp.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) CC: ts@infodirekt.de Thomas Schreiber wrote: > > 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 Take a look at the cpio command. It should make your tree into one big file and then re-exspand it where you want it. syntax@eramp.net