cp files

[TRUONG]

Hello,
I would like to copy all files under a big directory (1,5 Gb) to another directory but it did not work with cp -r dir/* target. Does someone know ? manpage cp can not help me.

Thanks

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

try the combination of find and cpio:

cd
find . -depth | cpio -pmdv

Greetings

Andrew

[Rick Garland]

Do the cpio as described. You will also keep the ownerships when doing the cp.

[Michael Lampi]

Another method is
cd source_dir;tar cf - * | (cd destination_dir;tar xfp -)

[keh]

Try this if you copy files across harddisk
ufsdump 0f - /dir_1 | (cd /dir_2; ufsrestore xf -)