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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving /gnu to different disk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:29:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160112222908.GA19839@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEkXCTOUkua=P1+ChHJ6D9UfOnS_kzdCsoEGDMU=gj7rcAAFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:39:02PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:
> I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links
> but reproducing the data.

You can use rsync with the option "-H" to preserve hard links.

I think your proposed solution with bind mounts will work, but I let
the specialists confirm.

Andreas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-12 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12 21:39 moving /gnu to different disk carl hansen
2016-01-12 22:29 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-13 11:12   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-12 22:29 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-01-13  4:31   ` carl hansen
2016-01-13 11:14 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-01-15 14:06   ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-13 18:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber

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