It's from a how-to on converting a root partition to xfs. what does the following command do? mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt cd / tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -) can I use cp -a to achieve what the tar did? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22 ^ ^ 10:24pm up 2 days, 4:20, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.97