Moving large directories in Solaris

Learnt a neat way to transfer a large directory of files, esp useful if you are going to move more than 8Gb of data.

1) cd into that directory.
2) use the following command

# tar cpBEf - * | ( cd /; tar xBEf -)

Do note that the "E" flag is very important if you are copying files that are larger than 8Gb.