Re: Copying hard links.
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:35:11AM -0400:
> In the previous discussion of hard links in the archive, it was suggested
> tome that cpio and tar did manage the links correctly although cp -a did
> not.
>
> I just tried to use tar to copy one of my CDs with hard links back onto
> the hard disk. I did a cd to that archive, and ran:
>
> tar -c /cdrom | tar -xv
Tar has many options. When copying filesystems that I want to be exact,
I use:
tar -c -W --atime-preserve --numeric-owner -p -s -f thisfile.tar -v \
--totals blah.dir
I don't recall having hard links archived as the files themselves, but I
never really checked...this would be a disturbing omission on GNU's
part.
--
Scott
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