Re: [SLUG] Directory copying question

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 14:01:21 EDT


I hope I am answering my own question:
I mkdir /mnt/blah, then mount /dev/hdb_ /mnt/blah
then cp -a /olddrivedir /mnt/blah
for each directory.
Smitty

On Thursday 12 September 2002 13:14, you wrote:
> After I have partitioned a drive and made filesystems on the necessary
> partitions, am I correct that when I copy a directory, cp -a, from the old
> disk to the new, I need to only mount the partition I am copying the
> directory to? That is, all other partitions on the disk are umounted?
> This makes sense, but I question if there is something I am missing.
> Smitty



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