Re: hdd change

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Subject: Re: hdd change
From: "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:02:32 -0700
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'?
> 
> It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2).

The GNU cp command does those... "cp -a".  Other "cp" variants
maybe don't...

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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