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From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: livefs hard links
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:

> The FreeBSD livefs ISO filesystem hides hard links, so they can't be
> accurately copied.

Use `tar cf - | tar xf -' to copy them.

>
> Is relinking nearly everything in /rescue enough, or are there other
> former hard links waiting to pop up?

There are some hardlinks in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin dirs.