Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 17:55 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nuno J. 
Silva did opine thusly:

> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010,
> > James did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T
> >> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats.
>
> [...]
>
> > Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb
>
> Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol'
> tar - after lots of research, it was the only way I found to be sure
> hard links would still be linked in the new filesystem.
>
> IIRC, rsync does not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken?


man rsync;

        -H, --hard-links            preserve hard links

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