Apparently, though unproven, at 17:55 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nuno J. Silva did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, > > James did > > > > opine thusly: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T > >> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. > > [...] > > > Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb > > Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol' > tar - after lots of research, it was the only way I found to be sure > hard links would still be linked in the new filesystem. > > IIRC, rsync does not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken? man rsync; -H, --hard-links preserve hard links -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com