copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Wed Jul 28 13:15:04 UTC 2010


I want to copy my home directory onto a USB drive (formatted to ext3),
shuffle the partitions around on the computer, and copy my home
directory back (onto a new, blank partition).  I can think of four
ways to do it, although I'm not familiar with using the fourth:

cp -r
rsync
tar
cpio

Recommendations?





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