[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Tethys]

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.

Tet
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