[Nottingham] Question: Best command for copying large filesystem between disks?

[Andy Smith]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:47:39PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> So, to avoid the disks overflowing, keeping the hardlinks as hardlinks
> is a very good idea. Keeping the original uid/gid is also a must.
> 
> So that's a few extra flags for the "cp" at least...

No, cp -a includes all that. Check the man page. :)

Cheers,
Andy

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