[geeks] Quickest way

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> What is the quickest way to move a bunch of files from /opt/sfw to
> /usr/sfw on two separate partitions preserving all permissions in
> Solaris 9.

(in Bourne/Korn shells)

mkdir -p /usr/sfw
cd /opt/sfw
tar cpf - . | ( cd /usr/sfw && tar xpvf - )

> For some reason I seem to think cp will crash and tar won't quite
> work.

What is tar doing incorrectly?

> Do I need dump/restore?

You -can- use ufsdump/ufsrestore, but tar is generally faster for this
sort of thing.

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