[ale] Hard Drive Upgrade

[jbayes at occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Joe Bayes)]

Bob Kruger typeth:

>Any ideas or suggestions on copying from the old drive to the new drive
>other that " cd / ; cp -r * ...."  ?

I've never had a problem with:

tar cf - olddisk |(cd newdisk ; tar xf -)

(man tar for whatever file permission preserving options you may
want...) 

--joe