Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100218_130038, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:04:32 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >>> Use this instead: > >>> cp -a /medi

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:04:32 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> Use this instead: >>> cp -a /media/. /mnt >>> OR >>> cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt >>

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Bob McGowan schreef: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Stephen Powell schreef: >>> Hi, all! >>> >>> In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give >>> instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves >>> mounting one partition on /media and the other on /

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Use this instead: > > cp -a /media/. /mnt > > OR > > cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt > > Your second method doesn't work in ash because ash does not support > brac

Re: Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
> rsync -a /media/ /mnt/ This is good. Note that the trailing / on /media/ is significant. > OR > find /media -exec cp -a {} /mnt \; No, that is both wrong and very inefficient:- Wrong - Try this: mkdir /tmp/media /tmp/mnt mkdir -p /tmp/media/a/b/c touch /tmp/media/a/aa /tmp/media/a/b/bb

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote: >> Then the files >> are copied between partitions by means of >> >>cp -a /media/* /mnt >> >> This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files wit

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Bob McGowan
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Stephen Powell schreef: >> Hi, all! >> >> In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give >> instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves >> mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files >> are c

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
17.02.2010 19:18, Stephen Powell kirjoitti: [...] Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing "." (the current directory) and ".." (the parent directory). Does anyone know a better way? tar cf . | tar -C /target -xpf - or find . -depth -print0 |cpio --null -pvd /target

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stephen Powell schreef: > Hi, all! > > In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give > instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves > mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files > are copied between partitions by me

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 17 Fev 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give instructions for copying an entire partition. [snip] Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing "." (the current directory) and ".." (the parent directory). Does any

Re: General method for copying a partition

2010-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote: > Then the files > are copied between partitions by means of > >cp -a /media/* /mnt > > This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files with names > beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition.