On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> I attempted to copy contents of one partition to another using > cp -R /media/richard/myrepo /media/richard/test > > /media/richard/myrepo is a hard disk partition > /media/richard/test is a USB flash drive > I think what you want is the magic tar command: $tar cf - [files] | (cd /[dir]; tar xf - ) It's wise, just to make sure it's going to do what you expect, to do $tar cf - [files] | (cd /[dir]; tar tvf - ) first! Substitute 'u' for 'x' to update files; otherwise, old files will overwrite newer files with the same name. (I know; I did it!) To copy a whole directory; create the parent dir if it doesn't already exist, then: $tar cf - [dir] | (cd /[parent_dir]; tar xf - ) I haven't had occasion to use it in a while, but I'm pretty sure it makes a "perfect" copy. HTH Patrick
