18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
15:29
The Wednesday 2004-03-17 at 20:11 -0800, David Herman wrote:
Actually what is happening is that the files (and their permissions) are being bundled together by the first part of the command, then via a pipe they are uncompressed in the new directory with all of the file attributes intact
However: | Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use | tar to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug. There | are of course many other ways to copy the disks, but these three are | the simplest, quickest, and most reliable. | | (Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To) I wonder what that "bug" is. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson