Re: Copy big folder from a NTFS partition to an external HD

horacius.rex@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
How could I copy a whole directory and its subdirectories from the ntfs
partition to an, for example, ext3 (or another format) partition using
cp ?


cp -r

IIRC.

i.e. suppose you have one partition mounted as /home and the other as /newhome

cd /home
cp -r * /newhome

will do it.

If you want to duplicate things exactly (file creation times etc) , IIRC something like
tar c * | (cd /newhome; tar x)

does that..makes a tar archive and pipes it to a new shell which explodes it into a new space. Not sure of exact syntax. Others will doubtless correct.


Do all this as root, to avoid possible lack of write permissions.
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