[nflug] copy (cp) large number of files

[Robert Meyer]

cd /mnt/mus/multimedia
cp -R . /mnt/multimedia

Cheers!

Bob
--- "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Hello all:
> 	I'm in the middle of reconfiguring my server. This box now runs Gentoo with
> several scsi 
> drives. I have three drives that I'm using LVM2 to create 1 directory. This
> stores mostly music 
> and video files. In order not to loose any of the files I created an LVM
> partition out of 2 18G 
> drives. I then formated this with mkreiserfs and mounted it. I then tried to
> copy the nearly 
> full 36G ext3 drive to the newly created LVM drive. This is with the
> intention of reformatting 
> the ext3 drive with reiserfs and using it to extend the LVM partition.
> However, when I tried to 
> copy the files I got:
> 
> cp /mnt/mus/multimedia/* /mnt/mus/
> -bash: /usr/bin/cp: Argument list too long
> 
> 	My son stop by and told me to use -R switch which did work at copying.
> However, it also copied 
> the directory. I want to be able to mount this as /mnt/multimedia and then
> create the 
> directories applicable for the files used. If left in the current state it
> would mount ok but 
> instead of referring to the directory as /mnt/multimedia it would be 
> /mnt/multimedia/multimedia. So my question is: How can I get these into the
> parent directory of 
> the LVM partition without the "-bash: /usr/bin/cp: Argument list too long "
> error message?
> Thank you,
> Bob
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