On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400
Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> 
> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs
> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ?
> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files.
> It won't affect today's installation job,
> but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it.
> 

Are the source media and the usb stick formatted with the same file
system? Are the block sizes of the file systems the same?


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Daniel
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