> Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop: > Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then > "cd / > tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -)" > would copy some things to /mnt then copy /mnt/* to /mnt/mnt/ and so on. It doesn't. I've been using this a lot lately while reorganising file systems, and have never had a problem. hamish