On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote: > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing > back to the original "real" file, even though the "real" file has > also been copied to the dest drive.
Only absolute symlinks, which are relatively rare; and if he's cloning a drive I'd assume he's planning to mount it in the same position in the filesystem anyway? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
