Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:27, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > 2. As root, cp -Rp things over. Best to have as little activity as possible. That is, not running X, not getting e-mail.
> 
> Umm, this is not adequate. It does not preserve ownership,
> group membership, etc. The man page gives, perhaps,
> 
> --preserve=all
> 
> But it's ambiguous. I'd rather make a tarball and be sure.

cp -a works fine for this - at least for systems that
have GNU cp.

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