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Date:      Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:19:45 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: livefs hard links
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007080700280.43685@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <86y6dmo4gh.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007072023020.40255@wonkity.com> <86y6dmo4gh.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Anonymous wrote:

> 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.

That was my first thought, too.  Well, second thought, after 'rsync 
-aH'.

But the mounted ISO filesystem doesn't show hard links as hard links:

# ls -li /mnt/rescue
416796 -r-xr-xr-x  414 root  wheel  4367520 Jun  9 14:49 [
399564 -r-xr-xr-x  414 root  wheel  4367520 Jun  9 14:49 atacontrol
399690 -r-xr-xr-x  414 root  wheel  4367520 Jun  9 14:49 atmconfig
399816 -r-xr-xr-x  414 root  wheel  4367520 Jun  9 14:49 badsect
...

And rsync or tar never see a hard link to copy.



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