Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you don't use them): cp -auv
The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if he is copying to a freshly partitioned drive, there shouldn't be anything there to update anyway so it will still copy everything.
Your mileage may vary tho. Dale :-) :-)