On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:39:02PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > > I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links > > but reproducing the data. > > You can use rsync with the option "-H" to preserve hard links. > > I think your proposed solution with bind mounts will work, but I let > the specialists confirm. > > Andreas > > Thanks, Andreas and Leo, the rsync -Hav /gnu/ /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu rm -rf /gnu mkdir /gnu mount --bind /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu seems to be working perfectly. I hope this question and answer is put into GUIX faq somehow.
