Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:53:09 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:

> btw, the best cp command for the job is cp -Ra (a for archive - maintain
> all permissions - do this as root to maintain uid/gid of other
> users/groups).

Thanks for pointing out why "cp -r" is unacceptable. 

Just my added 2c...

the -R is actually not necessary once the -a is specified. I.e., "cp -a" 
is all that you need.

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