[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:02:31AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
> >> I used to move filesystems around via a pair of tars to and from stdout
> >> connected via ssh, but for my most recent major move I just used `cp
> >> -av' as root.
> >
> >Does that preserve hard links properly?  Doesn't always matter,
> >sometimes really does.
> 
> Don't know about the cp, but tar does. It even preserves sparse files,
> and special files these days, too.

I was asking about cp -av.  I know about tar.


-- 
Bruce

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