How copy /usr contents to a new partition?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 03:16, John Summerfied wrote:

> cp never seems to do what I want, so I'd
> sudo -s
> tar clC / usr | tar xpC /mnt/mountpoint

On systems that have the GNU version of cp (all linux distros,
I think), 'cp -a' will do what you want.

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