On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:03:29AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote:
> > You can use cp -a on each mounted filesystem (I used to advocate
> > tar|tar, but on new linux systems cp is even better[1]), and manually
> > make the swap partition.
>
> Really? Is it because of the new Linux kernel or because of some
> fileutils enhancements? (I like tar|tar... Feels so Unixly elegant)
Well, as someone demonstrated here (I am sorry, I don't remember who;
perhaps it was plp?) in one of the non-recent How-To-Back-Up-A-
-Filesystem threads, cp -a handles special files more gracefully than
tar|tar. I agree with the feeling of grace tar|tar gives, especially
when using subshells, thus:
tar cf - . | (cd /target ; tar xvf -)
But there you have it. And yes, the improvement is in GNU fileutils
(I think).
Of course, one should never let one's tar|tar habits rust, as it is
still useful on systems without new GNU cp's (as mentioned), and also
on our favorite OS when copying to netcat or similar.
Hmmm, anyone care to patch GNU cp to accpet - as either source or
destination? This is not a trivial change, of course, as it should
work more like a directory than like a file.
--
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