pinto wrote:
On Thursday 18 March 2004 05:53, David Herman wrote:
As I said before, I use the tar method suggested by John Clausen, and it has worked for me but the cp -a method may suit you.
------snip----------- Keep having a great evening!
TAR works great like this :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I have decided to use the command: cp -a /home /data4 for both the home and etc directories. I trust this will include all the hidden files, retain the user permissions and generally just cp the darn directory. :) -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================