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From: Geoff Clare on 13 Jan 2010 09:07
David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:24:29 -0500, Mark White <mwhite198823(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> pseudo filesystems. Try ...
>>> rsync -axSX --exclude="lost+found" / destinationmountdir/
>>
>> Hello Dave,
>> I tried the above, and it worked like a charm. Thanks!
>
> Glad it helped.
>
>> I'd still have been curious to know what exactly went wrong with cpio...
>
> As Stephane posted, it could be links being copied as seperate
> files, or sparse files being expanded.

cpio preserves hard links, so it must have been sparse files.
The fact that rsync -S cured the problem also points to this.

The OP might want to add -H to the rsync options so that if
there are any hard links they are preserved as well.

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Geoff Clare <netnews(a)gclare.org.uk>


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