[PLUG] Copying LVM installation to smaller disk
John Meissen
john at meissen.org
Tue Jan 27 23:50:46 UTC 2015
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com said:
> In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same
> way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
> rsync -av /src/foo /dest
> rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
> In the first line the contents of /src/foo are copied to /dest. In the
> second line the contents of /src/foo are copied to /dest/foo; you don't want
> that.
Actually, to be more precise, in the first line the directory 'foo' and its
contents are copied to /dest, while in the second just the contents of 'foo'
(not the directory itself) are copied to /dest/foo.
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