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Date:      Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:47:10 +0400
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: livefs hard links
Message-ID:  <86y6dmo4gh.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007072023020.40255@wonkity.com> (Warren Block's message of "Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:11:45 -0600 (MDT)")
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007072023020.40255@wonkity.com>

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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:

> The FreeBSD livefs ISO filesystem hides hard links, so they can't be
> accurately copied.

Use `tar cf - | tar xf -' to copy them.

>
> Is relinking nearly everything in /rescue enough, or are there other
> former hard links waiting to pop up?

There are some hardlinks in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin dirs.



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