From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 20:36:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04788 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue2@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue2@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17193; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:35:25 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980625133521.29606@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:35:21 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Doug White Cc: RPD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying/duplicating disks: replacing IDE with scsi References: <358F5048.5F556D4C@distance.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 06:49:31PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 06:49:31PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, RPD wrote: > > > I have just added a scsi drive to my system, is there a way to cp > > everything from my IDE drive to my SCSI drive. Basicly looking to just > > duplicate everything from my IDE drive to my SCSI drive and take my IDE > > drive right out of the box. Any information would help. > > cp -p -R /disk1 /disk2 > > -R is recursively copy, -p is preserve permissions. So why is copying sometimes done with tar instead of cp? -- Regards, -*Sue*- sue@welearn.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message