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Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)Posted Mar 15, 2005 17:34 UTC (Tue) by ceswiedler (subscriber, #24638)In reply to: Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com) by kasperd Parent article: Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)
Aren't there some issues with permissions, devices, setuid bits, etc when using cp -a? I've been bit by that stuff before. I think tar handles these cases better.
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Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com) Posted Mar 17, 2005 21:46 UTC (Thu) by kael (guest, #1599) [Link] I have cloned many a system (Linux with Gnu tools) over the years.
Works fine.
Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com) Posted Mar 18, 2005 22:53 UTC (Fri) by haraldt (guest, #961) [Link] Look up the man pages of "cp". The "-a" switch covers a lot, but you may want to add some more.
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