[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Nix]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Bruce Richardson gibbered uncontrollably:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:37:57PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

Yes, it does. (It doesn't preserve sparseness perfectly but that's
impossible to do reliably in any case. It tries as well as it can.)

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