James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org> writes: > using tar | tar is very effective as it can copy special devices > and links, which cp oftain fails on. If you're on an even semi-recent GNU system, I suspect "cp -a" would also be suitable. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4