On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2010 09:38:42 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you >> > don't use them): >> > cp -auv >> >> Maybe >> >> cp -auvx >> >> ? >> >> Just asking, >> Mark > > if you are copying a life-sytem -x is needed. Indeed. > But if you boot from a cd and mount source and destination on different mount > points x is not needed. > > Ah, good point.
I wasn't thinking about 'live' so much as just a complicated system with multiple hard drives/partitions. For instance, copying /home where here are links to other partitions for /home/users1, /home/user2, etc. I wouldn't want to copy those other users along with /home/user3 that resides on the /home partition physically. Thanks for the clarification, Mark
