[TriLUG] Stoopid copy question

[Lisa Lorenzin]

> I have a two drive system, the second drive being one 18GB partition  
> with about 3GB used. For various reasons I need to re-partition that  
> drive. So, I want to copy that 3GB to another partition on drive one,  
> repartition, and then copy it back.

i just did almost the exact same thing, copying the content of an 80GB
drive over to a new 120GB drive (only difference was not needing to copy
it back).  after experimenting, i found that tar cvpf, cp -a, and rsync
-avz all basically Do The Right Thing, with permissions and timestamps
preserved.  i ended up using rsync because i already use it for backups,
and i like having options for compression, how symlinks should be handled, 
etc.

					hth,

						lisa

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