Re: Repartitioning

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> writes:

> Ah, good point. cp would actually change all symlinks (and hard links)
> into separate copies, wouldn't it. So perhaps archiving to tar files
> would be better. tar understands both symlinks and hard links, right?

    cp -d preserves symlinks and hardlinks
    cp -p preserve file attributes if possible
    cp -R Copy directories recursively, preserving non-directories 
    cp -a same as -dpR

     See man cp or info cp (The info page seems a little more
complete).

Regards,

Bob
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