On 11/12/2017 12:27 PM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net
<mailto:o...@drijf.net>> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Steve Williams wrote:
> cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication
because it will
> re-create device nodes.
Both pax and tar do that as well.
Come on, you still remember using tar back in the 90's when it didn't
support devices, paths were 100 bytes _total_, and they didn't include
user/group names (only UID/GID), right? Good times!
Philip
Yes, my habits were born of SCO Xenix, IBM's AIX for the RT PC, etc.
Old habits die hard!!! lol
Cheers,
Steve W.
