On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote: > Then the files > are copied between partitions by means of > > cp -a /media/* /mnt > > This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files with names > beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition.
Use this instead:
cp -a /media/. /mnt
OR
cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt
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