Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes:
> However, ‘cp -p’ does not preserve everything, including hard links. > Applications shouldn't care but you might be surprised at how much > disc space hard links save on my system: > > ~ λ du -hs /gnu/store > 86G /gnu/store > ~ λ du -hs --count-links /gnu/store > 192G /gnu/store > > I was! Wow! > ‘cp -a’ should preserve hard links but I personally recommend using > rsync instead, with a paranoid helping of -aHAX flags. Unlike cp, it's > resumable, which is nice when copying 100s of gigabytes. Yes I wasn’t sure if keeping links could not break something. But I guess it shouldn’t harm since after mounting everything will have the same place on the filesystem. I agree that rsync -aHAX seems a much better option. I would have resorted to that if things kept breaking with cp. That’s what I meant by "just using cp is a bit brutal". I wasn’t sure which of the uncountable options of rsync to use though ^^ > Kind regards, > > T G-R Thanks for the feedback, Théo
