Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

[Bruce Perens]

From: Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over
> 100 characters

Well, we've beaten this dead horse for long enough.

I think GNU tar will handle over-100-character filenames. There is an
extension to the tar format to handle them. However, my
"tar-in-a-function" that I wrote for dpkg does not have that extension,
which is why dpkg won't handle it.

        Thanks

        Bruce