On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 12:43:49AM -0400, Robert (Drew) Norman wrote:
> 
> The best way to do a copy and make sure it all works is like this:
> 
> find . -print | cpio -pdmv <target directory>

i use 

find . -print0 | cpio -0admpuV --sparse /target/dir

note that cp -dpR and/or cp -a usually fail to copy hard-links correctly

L.

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