On Saturday 25 April 2009 19:32:14, Stan Goodman wrote:
As you are copying files, you should be better using a file copy tool, like rsync. Or even midnight commander. Or you could use clonezilla.
Why is any one of these better than the simple cp, which knows very well how to copy files?
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