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The Monday 2007-04-30 at 07:14 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Er... you should not loose any file nor link - if you use the right
> > options. Everything is saved. You might loose extended attributes,
> > though.
>
> The --preserve option of cp (along with the -d and -R) using value "all"
> plus the --attributes option will include extended attributes options
> and allow 100% faithful duplication.
True, but I was thinking of tar and friends.
> Cp can also create sparse files, in circumstances when that might
> matter:
I think some p2p programs use them when retrieving files in random chunks.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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