nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > 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?
(And then I read the rest of the thread and found out it actually does, so ignore me.) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
