[clue-tech] cp with hard links

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> Somewhere I heard that cp didn't support preservation of hard-links, but it 
> seems to support them fine.
> After running 
> 'cp -av --preserve=all /online/* /offsite/' 
> for a very long time, I have 1.6TB in both file-systems, and files in the target 
> with way more than one in the link-counter field.
> _______________________________________________

I had heard that too.  Maybe this was true of most versions of cp, but not GNU cp.  Or this is a recent addition to GNU cp.