Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:05:00 +1100 From: "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au> To: Erik Wenzel <erik@todo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is cp so slow? Message-ID: <20000215120459.A44286@vet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000214125652.A25174@todo.de>; from erik@todo.de on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:56:52PM %2B0100 References: <20000214125652.A25174@todo.de>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:56:52PM +0100, Erik Wenzel wrote: > Hi All, > > why is moving /usr/ports to another Partition taking over 1/2 hour? > That's only 4MB. I am using freebsd-stable-2.2.7. It's because there are so many directories and small files in that 4 Mb. I don't think 2.2 has softupdates, so that won't help. I often use cpio(1) for this kind of thing, which generally is faster than cp: $ cd /usr/ports $ find . -depth -print0 | cpio -0pvd /new/directory I believe you can achieve a similar effect with tar as well. -- Lachlan O'Dea <mailto:lodea@vet.com.au> Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ "You have controlled your fear... now release your anger." - Darth Vader To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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