Hello, Did you tried pax ? some thing like: pax -rw -pe <source> <destination>
I don't know if this the best tool, but I'm using it to duplicate a 1TB drive (having lot of hard links) onto an other one. I've done it couple of time, and I've do not see issues. rgds On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM, <webmas...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > Forgive problems with this email. > I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info > Scary. This is just temporary. > > OK. I've tried to use both methods and just don't > get true duplication. > > tar > It can't work with file and directory names > that are OK in filesystem, but too long for itself. > Quite a while back I lost a lot of unimportant files > and directories that had absolute paths too long. > Why is this happening with tar? Can this be fixed? > If not, I'd like to add a note about that to the FAQ. > > dump > I had to move /usr/local to a bigger partition. growfs, > etc. I kept the /usr/local untouched and then dumped it > to the new partition, expecting a true duplication. > Nope. > It changed all of the program symlinks permissions. > Why is dump doing this? Can this be fixed? > Otherwise, a note about this should be added to the FAQ > also. > > Question: > Can dd be used to do what I did with dump or tar? > Smaller partition copied to a bigger partition. > > I'm willing to try and help out, but I'm going through > both laptop and server hell at the moment. > > Thanks, > Chris Bennett > >
