On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote:
> Then the files
> are copied between partitions by means of
>
> cp -a /media/* /mnt
>
> This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files with names
> beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition.
Use this instead:
cp -a /media/. /mnt
OR
cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt
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