On Monday 09 May 2005 11:31 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> I tend to use rsync to do wholesale copies like that nowadays:
>
> rsync -av /mnt/hda1/ /mnt/hdb1/
>
> There are some other flags you can give rsync to preserve things like
> sparse files and hard links which cp is not aware of.

Adding a -H to the options will take care of hard links (use it frequently 
in things like backups) and -S will force it to recognize and handle sparse 
files in an intelligent manner (often necessary to deal with some database 
stores).

Gregory

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