Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 00:39 +0930, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 10:27 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Copy (or, better still, rsync) everything from/usr/share/ to /overflow/share. If you use rsync -Cavvh you will preserve ownership and permissions and get verbose human-readable progress reports as you go. Doesn't cp -av also do that? Yes it does. I would use cp. rsync is only needed if doing this between two different machines over a network. But with rsync if, for some reason, the copy operation is interrupted and you're not sure exactly what has or has not been copied, you simply re-issue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:03:28 Roger Oberholtzer wrote: the command and it will only copy those files that don't exist or differ between source and destination (for example, a partially copied file). That is the main reason that I chose to use rsync (I also use it scripted for daily backups of my /home partition to a removable drive, but that is another story).
True. But do you often encounter problems copying between two disks on the same machine? I have only had good luck with cp. Also, if the cp fails, you can do the rsync next. cp is faster. Still, being Linux, there is always more than one way to accomplish something!
Or you can just do cp -ua :) I'm a big rsync fan but it does have limitations. One is that it builds a list of files before doing anything, and so can run out of memory. cp gets around that. Cheers, Dave PS I think the OP would be better advised to make the windows partitions smaller to recover some of the vast amounts of free space in them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org