Will a cp command correctly copy links and other special files?

What I¹ve always seen suggested would be to mount the filesystems as you
described, and then use a command such as:

cd /mnt/3390-3 ; tar ­cf - * | (cd ../3390-9 && tar ­xf -)

tar will copy everything correctly. This will work cross-system as well,
with a slight change in syntax:

cd /mnt/3390-3 ; tar ­cf - * | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Œcd /dirToLoad && tar ­xf
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On 7/23/07 3:56 PM, "Jones, Zachary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On a second Linux machine,
> 
> attach both drives to the Linux guest.
> 
> Bring each dasd online to the linux guest.
> # chccwdev --online <0.0.0000 device address>
> Find out the Linux device
> # lsdasd 
> 
> Use the Linux device to mount the drives.
> 
> mount the 3390-3 as /mnt/3390-3
> mount the 3390-9 as /mnt/3390-9
> 
> then do a recursive copy of the 3390-3 to the 3390-9
> 
> # cp -R /mnt/3390-3/* /mnt/3390-9
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 15:45 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>>  DFDSS will copy the data from a -3 to a -9 with no problems. However, it
>> will not resize the Linux "partition" or filesystem on that drive. You'd need
>> to do a TRACK copy using DFDSS. The way that I would do it is to mount the -3
>> filesystem on a second Linux, mount the -9 filesystem as well, then "tar" to
>> copy the data from the -3 to the -9. Of course, this is very slow,
>> comparatively. 
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>>>  Subject: zLinux instance on Mod3 and need to move to a Mod 9
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>>>  To All:
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>>>     I know this has been asked before and I tried to search the archives but
>>> was unsuccessful.  I have a zLinux instance on a Mod 3 and I need to move it
>>> to a mod 9.  I was successful in moving a mod 9 to another mod 9 using
>>> ADRDSSU from the zOS side.   I don¹t this move will work using this method
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