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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:38:06 -0700
From: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>
To: Presence <presence@irev.net>
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Subject: Re: move home dirs
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:01:00PM -0700, Presence wrote:
> (cd /mnt/old/usr/home/ ; tar -cvlf - .)|(cd /usr/home/; tar xpf -)
>  It moved everything across perfectly, including .dot files and
> permissions.

I did something similar recently. What really impressed me: tar handled
hard links. I guess it keeps track of inode numbers that it has already
seen.

Very good to know, if you want to copy a filesystem with (too many)
hard links.


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