On 01/05/10 04:32, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Jackson wrote: >> find / -xdev -type f | while read i; do >> cp $i /tmp/tmp >> rm $i >> mv /tmp/tmp $i >> done > > I presume that cp should be cp -p? And I guess it would be better to do a mv > -f rather than rm + mv, otherwise you're going to have trouble when you hit > /bin/mv. :-) And of course this needs to run as root. > >> Obviously, don't actually run that. > > Well, are there any other caveats than the ones I listed above? The cp/rm/mv file replacement method is only suitable for once off replacements as there are processes started per file. Even for single file replacements there are considerations other than performance: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html Better do this sort of thing to/from another partition (that supports all the same file attributes), with tar,rsync,... cheers, Pádraig. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
