Swapping Drives...

[Duane Attaway]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Steven Elling wrote:

> cp -a /home/* /home/me/temp
> or
> cp -dpR /home/* /home/me/temp
> 
> I just tested the recursive copy and it will do this.  So, don't mount the 
> directory you want to copy to underneath the location your are copying 
> from.

I believe cp's -x option should do the trick quite nicely:

       -x, --one-file-system

              Skip subdirectories that are on different filesystems  from  
              the one that the copy started on.

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