[wplug] dd

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:42:12PM -0500, Jonathan S Billings wrote:
> NEVER use 'cp -a' to copy system data to a new partition.  You'll lose 
> all the metadata on the files and directories, such as permissions, 
> ownership, timestamps and other bits.  The resulting OS will be useless. 

According to the cp man page,
    -a means -dpR

    -p means preserve mode, ownership, timestamps
    -d means preserve symlinks

I routinely copy filesystems to new disks this way and boot from them.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u