Re: Repartitioning
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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