On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ron McDowell <r...@fuzzwad.org> wrote:
> Everybody here is so friendly! > > I know how to use tar, patrick. Having a tarball on that drive that I then > have to untar to the local [ffs|hfs] seems kind of redundant, inelegant and > just plain crufty. > > -- > Ron McDowell > San Antonio TX > > SUN and SGI systems have been far worse. I have had to use tar in the past just to move data between drives mounted on the same system. This was due to differing block sizes. forget "cp -r " my only choice was: tar cf - oldstuff/* | (cd /newstuff/; tar xf -;) tar IS your best friend until you have to preserve resource forks...
