From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 21 6: 0: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24D437B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id GAA49005; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009211300.GAA49005@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: docs/21443: I'm tired of telling people how to copy a disk. Reply-To: Oliver Fromme Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/21443; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mwm@mired.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/21443: I'm tired of telling people how to copy a disk. Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:59:54 +0200 Mike Meyer wrote: > Since I don't use it, I'm not really willing to recommend it myself > (ditto for pax and cpio). For a number of reasons, I won't recommend > using it on the root fs. I'd suggest that you have a look at the manual page. The tool was written by Matt Dillon and Dima Ruban specifically for making an _exact_ copy of a UFS directory tree or file system, including all hardlinks, softlinks, devicenodes, sockets etc., preserving flags, permissions and utimes. I'm not aware of any reason not to use it for the root FS. > So how about adding a sentence along the lines of "You might prefer > cpio(1), pax(1) or cpdup (in ports/sysutils/cpdup) to tar." at the > appropiate point? That would be OK. Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message