Re: Using dd to copy a disk.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote:
> > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems.
>
> One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing
> back to the original "real" file, even though the "real" file has
> also been copied to the dest drive.
Only absolute symlinks, which are relatively rare; and if he's cloning a
drive I'd assume he's planning to mount it in the same position in the
filesystem anyway?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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