Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes:

> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James 
> did 
> opine thusly:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T
>> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats.
[...]
> Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb

Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol'
tar - after lots of research, it was the only way I found to be sure
hard links would still be linked in the new filesystem.

IIRC, rsync does not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken? 

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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