-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really asking "I would like to know why some people seem to prefer tar or cpio to replicate a disk". Well, I don't know the answer, but in either case, you have often to be careful to avoid infinite recursive copying: cd / mount /dev/somedisk /mnt cp -a * /mnt See the mess? ( /mnt/mnt/mnt/... ) [*] -a does already include -R, see cp --help. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNMpAZSqK7IlOjMLFAQF24QQAkAsItNB+VDPCUEiuushF/QoZYbHQjAXD NNRCJpICk9NENYCxGqC2glHs0ETdzTyfe+TWmVkQ3AiNTAsras+Cva9tbi/6U75Z CZF9TV2zWb9Rm/5Zfw3Yv+axh2/uGv/IrVtVoL0R2PsSG2t0YTsz0v71x/quT3q+ tlDT7l6qu9A= =dkH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
