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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-12-04 3:43 AM, Linda Walsh
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rsync@tlinx.org"><rsync@tlinx.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:529EEB1A.6060600@tlinx.org" type="cite"><br>
For that matter, is there a reason not to give "cp" a try"
<br>
<br>
mkdir <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>usr.tmp
&& cp -ax <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>usr<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>.
/usr.tmp<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>.
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<br>
I guarantee it will be faster than rsync. That or star -- if you
want
<br>
to know options, I'd have to reread the manpage, way too much to
<br>
remember.<br>
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Thanks Linda... I was initially planning on using cp for this, but
someone on the gentoo list convinced me that rsync was better (not
sure why now)...<br>
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So the above (cp -ax) will make an identical copy of /usr,
preserving all permissions and links (this is important, because I
have a limited amount of space on / for this - enough for the
current /usr, as long as all hard links are preserved).<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:529EEB1A.6060600@tlinx.org" type="cite">
For the purpose you are stating, copying all of /usr using "cp"
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or "star" would be better. <br>
If you have other things mounted on /usr</blockquote>
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Nothing else mounted on/under /usr...<br>
<br>
But... what exactly is meant by the -x switch ('stay on same
filesystem')?<br>
<br>
Currently /usr is on a reiserfs formatted LVM partition, and / is
ext3 on a regular partition on a hardware RAID mirrored pair...<br>
<br>
Thanks again...<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
<b><i>Charles</i></b><br>
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