Copy everything bar one folder

[Gabriel Dragffy]

SteVe Cook wrote:
> I want to copy everything bar one very large folder from my current 
> /home partition to another smaller partition and make this new partition 
> /home.
> 
> The only real problem I'm having is finding out how to copy all the 
> files bar one. I could copy a few at a time I suppose but that seems 
> rather long winded.
> 
> Trawling round the web hasn't produced any answers.  Any body got any ideas
> 
> SteVe
> 

You could do something like:

$ rsync -av --exclude=dont-want-this /home /another/location

man rsync for more info.
You may need to use sudo at the front of the command depending on what 
exactly you are trying to do.