alex wrote: > I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: > cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ > [...] > Is there a way to copy the entire contents of one partition to another > partition that contains duplicates without having to bang on y for each > duplicate----different options, for example? > I checked out ' man cp' but don't see anything that might help. Perhaps > there's a different way of doing the copy. I really like using rsync for this. rsync -a (partition a)/* (partition b)/ Or, since I have usually mounted the new disk under the old one and need to prevent the recursion, the following: mkdir /new mount /dev/whatever /new rsync -a --exclude /new / /new/ Bob
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