Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:53:10 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Ballard Jonathan H <sacramentokidd@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -pPR Message-ID: <20010225205310.V89396@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <000d01c09f99$9d05f580$0400a8c0@vectra>; from sacramentokidd@yahoo.com on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 06:12:46PM -0800 References: <000d01c09f99$9d05f580$0400a8c0@vectra>
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 06:12:46PM -0800, Ballard Jonathan H wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Regents, > > Yesterday to duplicate directory structures from one mount to another the `cp -pPR` command was used. Everything except the directory times and few files with 'schng' where duplicated without any problems reported. The files with the 'schng' flags were duplicated except yet returned 'warnings'. Zero length 'schng' files (/var/pwcheck/pwcheck) reported an error while duplicated. Directory dates were updated yet the orginal directory dates was expected to be duplicated. > > Is there another method to acheived desired results? > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD abyss.cybertronix.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #3: Wed Dec 13 09:33:45 PST 2000 root@abyss.cybertronix.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/CYBETRONIX i386 $ cd dest_dir $ tar cf - -C /old/dir/path dir1 dir2 | tar xf - -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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