Re: Copy EVERYTHING

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• Subject: Re: Copy EVERYTHING
• From: Chris Howard <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:30:34 -0700
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• Reply-to: chris@xxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:18 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> >  > cd /oldpart;  find . -xdev | cpio -padm /newpart
> > 

The cpio command doesn't preserve the timestamp on directories.

The tar version does:

cd /oldpart
tar cvf - . | ( cd /newpart ; tar xf -)

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