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Re: 3 SysAdmin questions



On 02-May-97 Ira Abramov wrote:

>dd would be ok for exact-same-size partitions, but I don't recommend it...
>the only plus it will give you is keeping your hard links, but face it:
>how many times in your life did you USE hard links? cp -a will give you
>also another important "feature", defragmentation while copying...

Not neccesarly. That's right, there will be no fragmented files, but some 
directories could be fragmented and some files left their groups.

Evgeny

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