Re: Copy everything bar one folder

SteVe Cook wrote:
I want to copy everything bar one very large folder from my current
/home partition to another smaller partition and make this new partition
/home.

The only real problem I'm having is finding out how to copy all the
files bar one. I could copy a few at a time I suppose but that seems
rather long winded.

Trawling round the web hasn't produced any answers. Any body got any ideas

SteVe


You could do something like:

$ rsync -av --exclude=dont-want-this /home /another/location

man rsync for more info.
You may need to use sudo at the front of the command depending on what
exactly you are trying to do.

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