On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no > : problems yet. > > device files (tar blows on those too). I don't think cp gets files with > "holes" right either (but I could be wrong). cp does have problems with sparse files (with holes), and hard links also. GNU tar should handle both of those cases correctly. (So should cpio, let's not fight over that! :} )