There must be a zillion ways to do this (rsync, cpio, even cp) so I'll throw in my personal favorite: # cd /old # tar --one-file-system -cf - . | (cd /new && tar xpf -) --Greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20140528/9692494c/attachment.html>