[geeks] Quickest way

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:08:25PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 02:16 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >You could cp -a /opt/sfw /usr/sfw, or you could:
> >cd /opt; tar cvpf - sfw | (cd /usr ; tar xvpf - )
> >In what respect do these not work?
> The last time I did something of this sort was on Linux a while back so 
> I am tainted.  I installed a whole bunch of stuff in /opt/sfw and then 
> realized that opt was only 1GB large.

I can't think of any good reason why they should not work on Linux
either.


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