I forgott about this one. This is the one I would use if I had to do over again.
My perdicament is what Rick is refering to when he says here we go again, I believe :) On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I > > have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so > > I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. > > Here we go again. > > You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and all > kinds of advice. > > GNU "cp" has an archive switch, "cp -a", that does what you want. > > People are gonna say, "Oh, don't use that, becuase it doesn't > exist on other systems so you might as well learn the hard way. > > You're talking about a Linux system with gnu cp, right? What the > hell do you care if cp -a doesn't work on most UNIX platforms? > > Of course, I recommend that you read the man (or info) page for > cp and try it on a directory such as /dev that has devices and symlinks. > > -- > ....RickM... > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
