On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a faster way to do a
cp -a r<thisdir> <thatdir>
locally on one machine with one harddisk inside.
Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than
good old cp?
Nope. Some people like to use pipes in hope to speed it up, something like:
tar -c <thisdir> | tar -xC <thatdir>
but this isn't really faster and fscks up sparse files.
But if <thatdir> already contains some files from <thisdir>, then rsync
would be faster than cp. If not, stick with cp.
