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

[Mike Martin]

Personally I generally tar up things when I do a transfer, seems to work
well


On 24 May 2013 17:50, Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net> wrote:

> 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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