Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:47:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: RPD <zula@distance.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying/duplicating disks: replacing IDE with scsi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624224706.29163N-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980625133521.29606@welearn.com.au>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > -R is recursively copy, -p is preserve permissions. > > So why is copying sometimes done with tar instead of cp? Tar remembers to preserve permissions, and cp won't unless you run it with -Rp. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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