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

nunojsilva@×××××××.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes:

> 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?

(And then I read the rest of the thread and found out it actually does,
so ignore me.)

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