Duplicating a whole filesystem with tar
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:22 | 
Written by Administrator | 
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Ever wanted to copy your entire filesystem into another including all the links and permissions?
Say we have a filesystem in /filesystem.
We wanna duplicate that filesystem to a new filesystem in /destination.
cs /filesystem
tar -cf - . |(cd /destination ; tar -xpvf - )
Enjoy!