On Monday 30 April 2007 05:05, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-04-30 at 13:33 +0200, jdd wrote: > > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > dd is dumb: if you take the image of a 100 GB disk and dd it to a > > > new 200 GB disk, you loose 100 GB. > > > > for sure. > > > > but each system have the pros and cons. > > > > using cp or tar makes you at risk of losing a linked file or a "." > > (dot) invisible file. It's faily difficult to figure out what is > > important and what is not. > > Er... you should not loose any file nor link - if you use the right > options. Everything is saved. You might loose extended attributes, > though.
The --preserve option of cp (along with the -d and -R) using value "all" plus the --attributes option will include extended attributes options and allow 100% faithful duplication. Cp can also create sparse files, in circumstances when that might matter: --sparse=WHEN control creation of sparse files > ... > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
