On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:50 -0700, babu walad wrote:
I did a tar to move a partition to a newly formatted HD partition. When I do a df of the filesystems, the amount of space used is NOT equal. Therefore the copies are NOT identical at some level as far as the file system is concerned. I made sure to copy sym links as links and not resolve them.
I have been using tar to backup entire file systems (including restore of / and C: of Windows) and have not encountered any problems yet. Another member has already responded as to why df reports different sizes. If you are not convinced that the file contents are the same then do a "cmp" or "md5sum" on the original and copied files. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man.