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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:40:12 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> ... or a find | cpio -pdm ... was always the method.

One nice thing about separation of function is illustrated by
the ability to add the "l" flag to cpio so as to conserve space
(if within the same physical filesystem).  For those not
familiar with it, that created (hard) links instead of new
inodes.