Alex Shnitman wrote:
> Hi, Marc!
>
> On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:24:45AM +0300, you wrote the following:
>
> > mkfs /dev/hd{x}{y}
> > mount -t ext2 !$ /mnt
> > cd /home
> > umask 000
> > tar cspBf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvvspBf -)
paranoia: s/\;/\&&/
> Any reason why not to use cp -a that I'm not aware of?
first: using tar is POSIX compliant, thus you can use tar method on
any POSIX(applications) compliant machine.
second: this is the Unix way.
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systems programmer, Mercury Interactive/RND/Conduct/core
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