On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > The disadvantage of this command is that it doesn't preserve hardlinks. > > Really? Mine preserves hard (and soft) links.
strange...reading...hm it says it does...trying...and it does, how come? I'm sure that just days ago whilst copying my mirror with cp -a to a new drive the size of the new mirror exploded, but using good old tar the size of the new mirror was about the same as the old mirror. I think I checked some hardlinks, and sure enough they had vanished, but in the light of this new test I'm not so sure anymore. Anyway, cp -a seems to work. -- groetjes, carel
