On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Thor wrote: > ... > > Speak for cloning a single partition then i suggest a simple > > 'cp -ax /mount_point_of_original_parition /mount_point_of_target_partiton' > > the 'a' stand for archive (recursive and same permission) > > and with the 'x' the copy don't go out the indicated filesystem. > > you can find the same suggestion in How-To/Large-Disk > > The disadvantage of this command is that it doesn't preserve hardlinks.
Really? Mine preserves hard (and soft) links. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp}ls -l a b ls: b: No such file or directory total 3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 steve steve 3 Feb 17 14:09 four -> one -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4 Feb 17 14:08 one -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 three -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 two [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp}cp -a a b [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp}ls -l a b a: total 3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 steve steve 3 Feb 17 14:09 four -> one -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4 Feb 17 14:08 one -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 three -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 two b: total 3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 steve steve 3 Feb 17 14:13 four -> one -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4 Feb 17 14:08 one -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 three -rw-r--r-- 2 steve steve 9 Feb 17 14:08 two [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp}cp --version cp (fileutils) 4.0.37 Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp}
