>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
Ethan> cp -R is a horribly wrong thing to use for this task, it
Ethan> will destroy symlinks and hardlinks. turning them into
Ethan> duplicate files. use cpio or tar.
or
cp -a
will preserve everything, too, I think. I often use the -x parameter,
too (stay on one file system).
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>