Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:45:01 -0600, Dale wrote:
cp -auv
The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I
never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av
fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if he is copying
to a freshly partitioned drive, there shouldn't be anything there to
update anyway so it will still copy everything.
You've just explained why rsync is a better choice.
It may be better but my point was that I once had problems with the -u
option. It was a freshly formatted drive so no idea why the -u would
have even mattered since it has to copy everything over anyway.
Dale
:-) :-)
