Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20091229_011737, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> ...
> > > $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/
> > > 
> > > This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-)
> > 
> > Why is this better than 'cd /path/to/source ; cp -a . destination' ?
> 
> Same... I overlooked that line in your post.

All of this discussion of getting cp to copy both visible and dot-hidden files
would be moot if someone could convince OP to use rsync, would it not? 

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net