[wplug] new HDD

[Rick Smith]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:51:19PM -0500, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > I see.. thanks.  I was a bit alarmed, but I looked in /var/log/messages
> > and I saw that it spotted my drive and named it /dev/hdb.  So I pressed
> > onward.  I then did something dumb, but have recovered: as root, I 
> > entered
> > 'cp -rf /home/* /temp1' where temp1 was my temporary mount point for my
> > new drive.  It copied everything, but with root as the 0wnz0r.  (I also
> > stomped all the date-stamps).
> >
> > It has since been fixed.  Except all my date stamps are for today, 
> > about
> > 35 minutes ago.  And, now I know about cp -rfp.
> >
> > Good thing I'm still the only user on this system... hehehe.
> >
> > -Brandon
> 
> I probably would have done this:
> 
> cd /home;
> tar cpf - . | (cd /temp1; tar xpvf -)

Careful if you have sparse files, as this will (or used to) expand them.
Tar has a -S option to handle sparse.
For doing the disk to disk on the same machine, I've had
great success with 'cp -a' for replicating sparse, pipes, sockets,
device files, symlink, hardlinks, permissions, owners, and timestamps.

Rick