Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/28/03

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Date: 28 Jul 2003 16:09:32 -0500

    On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote:
    > > From moseley@hank.org Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003
    > >
    > >
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    > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems.

    One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing
    back to the original "real" file, even though the "real" file has
    also been copied to the dest drive. 

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