[geeks] Quickest way

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:37:42PM -0400, 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.  For some reason I seem to think cp will crash and tar won't 
> quite work.  Do I need dump/restore?

Why would cp crash, and what is tar doing incorrectly?

You could cp -a /opt/sfw /usr/sfw, or you could:

cd /opt; tar cvpf - sfw | (cd /usr ; tar xvpf - )

In what respect do these not work?


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