[clue-tech] cp with hard links

[mike havlicek]

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] cp with hard links
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 11:56 AM
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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.
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For a boost of confidence you could check some of the results with "ls -i".

-Mike