Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

[armitage@freaks.com (Brandon High)]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:06:04AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "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).

There are porblems with symlinks in the target location using cp... the best
way is to do something like:
# tar cf - /usr | ( cd /new_partition ; tar xf - )

-B

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