Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote:
: On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
: > Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
: > cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.
: 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).
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