On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: : > Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio. : > cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time. : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no : problems yet.
device files (tar blows on those too). I don't think cp gets files with "holes" right either (but I could be wrong). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
