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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Gentoo to a new harddrive
From:       Alexander Kellett <kelletta () eidetica ! com>
Date:       2002-05-22 14:48:00
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:38:21AM -0500, Jeff Beley wrote:
> but more accurate than cp and probably faster than
> (cd /mnt/gentoo; tar clf - *)|(cd /mnt/new/ ; tar xf -)  
> and if /mnt/new is totaly empty it should be quite quick...

very true (a quick test shows that it just makes
a file list and performs no digesting). 

thanks very much for the tip then.

btw, is rsync accurate wrt acl's, extended 
attributes and such stuff?, what exactly makes
tar/cpio more accurate than an "cp -ax"?

Alex
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