Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Fernando Meira wrote: > >>- move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, "cp >>-a" or "rsync" would get better results? > > > Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: > less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five > times faster with tar than with cp -a. In a single line: > > cd /sourcedir; tar -cf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -)
cd /sourcedir; tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir && tar -xpvf -) > > Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
